On February 4, 2014 9:08:33 AM CST, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Also, examine the restored data to make sure it makes sense. As I once found out the hard way, the backup system may have made an accurate copy of data that had already been corrupted on the hard drive. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- 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.
