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Old 02-10-2012
Sun E220R + HP (SCSI) LTO Ultrium Tape Drive

Hi all,
this time I'd need a help from an advanced Solaris system admin Smilie

I attached a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 215 Tape Drives - Overview - c00059530 - HP Business Support Center to my Sun E220R and it got recognized immediately (probe-scsi-all).
Now the operating system boot process finished, I logged in with root and in dmesg I can see the drive:
Code:
Feb 10 17:47:44 sunbox1 scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@1f,4000/scsi@4/st@3,0 (st19):
Feb 10 17:47:44 sunbox1        <HP Ultrium LTO>

Code:
# iostat -x st19
                 extended device statistics                 
device    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv  svc_t  %w  %b 
st19      0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0   0   0 
#

Here are the questions:
How can I read the tape content?
How can I eject it with a shell command?
Can I load an already ejected tape?
Do I neccessarily need a proper/commercial Backup Software?
Can't I simply do the backup using dd command?
How would I do a full backup of the main harddisk sd0 ?
How would I do a full restore of the main harddisk sd0 ?

---------- Post updated at 18:41 ---------- Previous update was at 18:40 ----------

Thank you in advance for your attempt to help me! :-)

---------- Post updated at 18:44 ---------- Previous update was at 18:41 ----------

Please also note this is 100% my personal hobbyist problem!
It's definately not a real-world problem and of course this is not a homework or something.
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Old 02-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
How can I read the tape content?
How can I eject it with a shell command?
Can I load an already ejected tape?
Use mt command.
Quote:
Do I neccessarily need a proper/commercial Backup Software?
Can't I simply do the backup using dd command?
How would I do a full backup of the main harddisk sd0 ?
How would I do a full restore of the main harddisk sd0 ?
For that you can use tar or ufsdump/ufsrestore.
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Old 02-10-2012
MySQL

Dear bartus11,
thank you very very much for your PERFECT answer SmilieSmilieSmilie

I have all the commands you've mentioned and I'll study their man-pages.

Before I've posted my questions, I've run man st, but somehow I didn't understand anything Smilie

One more question: What if my system had a ZFS filesystem, may I also use the ufsdump/ufsrestore commands or should I rather go for tar command in that case? Smilie

BEST regards,
pc

Last edited by pseudocoder; 02-10-2012 at 04:28 PM.. Reason: iCODE tags :-)
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Old 02-10-2012
You can't use ufsdump/ufsrestore with ZFS. I think you can send ZFS snapshots to the tape though. Check zfs(1M) man page section for zfs send and zfs receive.
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Old 02-10-2012
How do I get a reply to a question or thread

I know this isnt the type of reply you were looking for but this is my first try at using a forum to answer my questions regarding Solaris. I have tried multiple times. What do I need to do to get a reply from someone on here?? If there is a rule that I am not following please let me know as I am out of options and need some assistance.
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Old 02-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
You can't use ufsdump/ufsrestore with ZFS. I think you can send ZFS snapshots to the tape though. Check zfs(1M) man page section for zfs send and zfs receive.
Great! Smilie

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Quote:
Originally Posted by jbirkes
I know this isnt the type of reply you were looking for but this is my first try at using a forum to answer my questions regarding Solaris. I have tried multiple times. What do I need to do to get a reply from someone on here?? If there is a rule that I am not following please let me know as I am out of options and need some assistance.
wtf?! Smilie

If you intended to help me, be sure you didn't.

If you need help, what's exactly your problem?
You posted a problem and no-one replied to it? Here? URL?
There are many written and unwritten rules.
Don't hijack others threads!!
Ensure that you post a qualified problem description, not just HELP HELP HELP.
Also post what you have tried at your own to solve the problem and so on.
Post in the right sub-forum and the like.

Good luck and start with stopping thread-hijacking!
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Old 02-10-2012
I didnt mean to offend. If I did, I apologize. I did submit under the correct sub-forum with a very concise list of issues. I have been working on the problem on my own for the better part of a week and have been unable to correct it myself. I am always very polite and try to provide as much helpful information as I can and yet you are the first to ever reply. Again my apologies and thank you for you input.

Oh, and my issue was regarding the runtime linker in solaris ld.so.1. I know literally nothing about it and it is really wearing me out.

Last edited by jbirkes; 02-10-2012 at 05:00 PM..
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