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Hi everyone.

I'm needing some help with this. I've made some backups on the same tape using cpio.

With cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0un i could see the first backups files, but now i'm getting the next messages <<End of medum on "imput">> <<To continue, type device/file name when ready>>.

I really need to see the files on the tape. Any idea?

What commands did you use to create the tape? If the device was not set for no-rewind, then you may only have the last backup on there.

Please post OS and version along with the command you used to create the tape.


Added note from the man page:
If, when writing to a character device (-o) or reading from
a character device (-i), cpio reaches the end of a medium
(such as the end of a diskette), and the -O and - I options
are not used, cpio prints the following message:

To continue, type device/file name when ready.

To continue, you must replace the medium and type the char-
acter special device name (/dev/rdiskette for example) and
press RETURN. You may want to continue by directing cpio to
use a different device. For example, if you have two floppy
drives you may want to switch between them so cpio can
proceed while you are changing the floppies. (Simply press-
ing RETURN causes the cpio process to exit.)

Thanks for the interest

The tape is set for no-rewind. There's no problem with that.
I'm running on Sun Solaris 8.

At the directory containing the files I backed up I made:
ls | cpio -oc > /dev/rmt/0un

I made mt rew to rewind the tape.
Now I'm trying
cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0un
to see my files on the tape. There's where I got the message.

Well I just tried this and I cannot duplicate your problem.

I did:
cd one
ls | cpio -oc > /dev/rmt/0un
cd ../two
ls | cpio -oc > /dev/rmt/0un
mt rewind
cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0un
cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0un

And each of the last two commands gave me a different table of contents. This was on SunOS 5.6.