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1. Red Hat
Hi all,
I need some help...
- I have two servers - serverA and serverB.
- ServerB has a tape drive
- I took a backup of some files on serverB on to tape drive on serverA.
- I used the following command:
serverB> tar cvfb - 20 ./<file> | ssh <serverA> 'dd of=/dev/nst0 bs=20b'
- I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ahmerin
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I normally backup to tape using the following command in Solaris 9 on SUN Enterprise 3500 server:
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n data
but after a power cut, the server went down without being shutdown since the UPS failed. Now when I issue the tar command I get the root (/) being full looks like it... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: rahmantanko
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone,
I am having difficulties restoring data from a tape and I was hoping someone could help me. Here it goes.
Whenever I type tar -xvf /dev/nst0, only the first file on the tape is restored which means that in the particular tape there are multiple tar files.
Can someone please... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: goude
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a zipped file that is ~ 10GB. I tried tarring it off to a tape, but I receive:
tar: <filename> too large to archive. Use E function modifier.
The file is stored on a UFS mount, so I was unable to use ufsdump.
What other options do I have? (I don't have a local file system large... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: FredSmith
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5. BSD
Hi all!
I have problem with copying files from tape drive.
The contents of tape:
silverman# tcopy /dev/sa1
file 0: block size 10240: 21 records
file 0: eof after 21 records: 215040 bytes
file 1: block size 10240: 20712 records
file 1: eof after 20712 records: 212090880 bytes
file 2:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: d3m00n
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have kinda inherited this problem, but was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.
Currently all our backup rentention periods are set to 2 weeks, so that we can cycle through tapes (save money etc...). Anyhow the guys next door in IT, decided one day long long ago, that it would... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: B14speedfreak
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7. AIX
I have AIX5.1
I have tried to retrieve a file from tape with no sucsess. I had this posted in the newbies section but I think I should have tried here. I did get some good info there though on where to start. This Is what I did.
My back line is so...
cat /rd/tmp/backuplist.full | cpio -ocvBdum... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rocker40
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can anyone please help....
how can I dump just a single file to tape using the ufsrestore command!!! I'm a newbie to unix and It's driving me mad..
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jonathan
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9. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
What is the unix command to move files/backups from the Os to tape.
Thanx in advance,
Kavita (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: knarayan
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have problem backup my files,
1 of my HD hit 46 % I want to backup 24 files into DDS3 tape (2 of them are more than 2GB)
Can I compress my files with output to DDS3 tape without "tar" to HD first.
Thank you
Sinardy (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sinardy
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