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Restoring tape files...
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 be a good idea to do monthly backups. Unfortunatley, they didn't tell us this, and so it has now become a problem.

My question is this. Does anyone know of a way to well, essentially by-pass veritas NBU on a vertias volume managed system, and restore things from tape. I know that I can do this from a VXRESTORE, however its an oracle rman backupset that I am looking to restore and normal file system and I didn't use a vxdump in the first place (well I prosume NBU didn't anyhow).

From an OS point of view under Solaris I managed to find some utilities TCOPY and MT. MT doesn't seem to allow me to do this. However TCOPY seems like a good solution, however, it will only copy from tape to a dir, I prosume the entire tape, and being that we don't really have systems with a 200gig + mount point at the moment, I don't fancy trying it.

Has anyone got any other ideas for something that I use? Ideally I would like to be able to mount the tape and see whats on it, and decided what to restore myself.

thanks,

Mark.
 
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backup_apropos

BACKUP_APROPOS(8)					       AFS Command Reference						 BACKUP_APROPOS(8)

NAME

       backup_apropos - Displays each help entry containing a keyword string

SYNOPSIS

       backup apropos -topic <help string> [-help]

       backup ap -t <help string> [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The backup apropos command displays the first line of the online help entry for any backup command that has in its name or short
       description the string specified by the -topic argument.

       To display the syntax for a command, use the backup help command.

OPTIONS

       -topic <help string>
	   Specifies the keyword string to match, in lowercase letters only.  If the string is more than a single word, surround it with double
	   quotes (" ") or other delimiters.

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

OUTPUT

       The first line of a command's online help entry names it and briefly describes its function. This command displays the first line for any
       backup command where the string specified with the -topic argument is part of the command name or first line.

EXAMPLES

       The following example lists all backup commands that include the word "tape" in their names or short descriptions:

	  % backup apropos tape
	  labeltape: label a tape
	  readlabel: read the label on tape
	  scantape: dump information recovery from tape
	  status: get tape coordinator status

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

       None

SEE ALSO

       backup(8), backup_help(8)

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       Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

OpenAFS 							    2012-03-26							 BACKUP_APROPOS(8)