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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: am115998
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Please note that using the command cpio to back up to tape was successful. Used the below command:
time find /accts -print | cpio -oa --block-size=512 --format=newc --verbose -O /dev/nst0
I'm trying to restore from tape of a particular file and having issues. Below is the command to restore... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: isoabv
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello folks, one of the RAID drives in our SCO system crashed recently and being hot swap it was replaced.
Problem was that on boot it stops at:
Checking protected password and protected subsystem databases....
First I did #authck -a and checked /etc/auth/system/ttys as per instructions in a... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Redstar
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Every one,
I want to back up all passwd files to /xyz/passfiles.cpio
and Then restore them to /abc directory.
Here is what I wrote:
find / -name passwd | cpio -oc > /tmp/passwd.cpio
and to restore
cd abc
cpio -ium < /tmp/passwd.cpio
I can not find the files restored to /abc... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: drdigital_m
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5. SCO
Our company purchased a spare HP ML350 server - identical to current one in use to act as minimal downtime replacement should the inevitable happen.
After install of OS 5.0.7 and restore of cpiobackup I get this message:
-: Syntax error: Hostname= $inexpected
The SCO licence policy... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: moondogi
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6. AIX
Hi all,
I am still working on my mksysb restore.
My latest issue is during an alt_disk_install from tape I got the following error after all the data had been restored.
0505-143 alt_disk_install: Unable to match mksysb level 5.2.0 with any
available boot images. Please correct this... (0 Replies)
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7. SCO
I am trying run cpio backing up to tape, but I get the above error. Can anyone assist please as I am sleeping at work today.
I tried setting the ulimit to unlimited but when I rebooted the server it came back with another value and I cannot run my backup now.... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dustytina
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I use following command to restore data from my cpio tape archive:
$cpio -icvd < /dev/rct0
But this'll restore all tape contents to the current path, what if I want only selected files from the tape, suppose I want
/home/compdir/home2/Rev83/data/PL/01/*.*
files to be restored... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tayyabq8
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
All right Ladies& Gents,
I am trying to figure out why the touchscreen.cpio patch that I loaded on my Panasonic cf-28 will not work. Besides the obvious of this is a patch for a Panasonic cf-29 that is. I know enough to load the .cpio patch and get it to work yet I cannot figure out how to... (0 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
SCO/Caldera Unixware 711
Hi Friends,
I have a cpio file which was created using relative pathnames.
the relative pathname is users/data/*
I want to restore these files to a different directory with cpio.
An example restore directory is /home/suresh
Is this possible ?
Can someone... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sureshy
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