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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a tape backup (it was made using dd/tar) and I want to use dd/pax to restore tape to disk, in IBM AIX 7.2.
I can restore from tape using example below without issues.
#/usr/bin/dd bs=128k if=/dev/rmt0 | /usr/bin/pax -r -v /home/c3rb3rus/utils/*
USTAR format archive... (6 Replies)
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2. HP-UX
I have just switched my production server from using the br_backup script that uses fbackup to the fs_backup script that uses PAX. Things seem to work fine and test restores are successful, but I'm not getting a daily e-mail with the backup results that I used to get from the br_backup script. ... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have tar ball "data.tar" which consists of many files from different directories.
If I untar a file using following command, it will untar file to location /input/data
tar -xvf data.tar /input/data/abc.txt
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Could any one please help me in understanding the difference between pax,tar and cpio. all of them basically creates archive files. (9 Replies)
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5. AIX
Dear all experts,
I would like to know if a pax command backup of AIX files can be restored into Linux environment run in Wintel server?
Currently I have a Full database backup using "pax" command in AIX box(IBM pSeries), the new management decison of the new server is on Wintel server which is... (5 Replies)
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6. AIX
Dear all experts online,
In my environment of AIX 5300-07, I am currently using "pax" command to backup all filesystems that I need to backup and it will take me around 4 hours time with LTO3 tape drive.
When I need to verify the tape after backup, I am using "pax" command to list all files in... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
we created a TAR file ( souce /opt/oracle/10.2) . If we want to extract it diff directory say (/tmp) . I know we can use pax to do this .but inside TAR we have absolute path ref . if we pax does it replaces absolute path in TAR ?
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8. AIX
Hi, I am using AIX 5.3.0.0 and Ultrium LTO3 Tape Drive as rmt1. I have backup some of my database file using command "pax" as
pax -wvf /dev/rmt1 "./data01/abc.dmp"
But when I tried to read the file from tape by issuing the command,
pax -vf /dev/rmt1
The error message displayed as
pax:... (4 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am having trouble with the pax command on Saris. I want to sue it to untar a file to a different directory. So if mytar.tar conatins files that were in /u02/mydir/mydir2/mydir3, I want to untar them to /export/home/mydir.
An example I have is:
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a .tar file consisting of text and binary files. I ftp'd the .tar file using ftp binary.
when I did the pax to unwind the tar file, I noiticed that the text files were encoded in binary.
**How would I retain the text characteristics of the ascii text files, while also keeping the... (11 Replies)
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