On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/03/2014 08:14 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > >> >> Reading a guide for cpio, it appears that the header for cpio archives >> is, indeed, ASCII text. Try: >> >> cpio -icdmv < /dev/rst0 (or whatever your tape device is) >> > > As I indicated earlier, the SCO system is down for the count; kaput. All of > the drives (okay, I didn't test the floppy disk) have expired: disk, CD and > tape. I am attempting to read backup tapes allegedly created on the system > before it expired with a tape drive that likely died before the hard disk > crash. > > So here I am on a Ubuntu 10.04 server attempting to read these tapes. dd > gives me an instant "input/output error; 0+0 records in; 0+0 records out. > Just tried the above cpio command and got "Segmentation fault." The messages > I got from file were against a partial output of safecopy which bombed for > lack of space. Since when does the restore of an 8GB compressed tape fill a > 10GB partition? > > Trying safecopy again, in a larger partition. More as it Happens (thank you > Andy).
If this isn't a reminder to everyone to test their backups to ensure that they can restore a system with their backups on a regular basis (at least as often as the entire system cycles), I don't know what is. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
