My Dad's friend is back with his SCO Open Server version 5.05 backup tape issue. Kudos to Jack Coats, first responder, for pointing out it would always become a backups issue.
Note: Also directed this question to Jon Meek and Brett Wynkoop personally - my Dad felt it important that you all know that. Thanks for the advice/help. ---pam His system WAS running on an old Pentium 4 and had some valuable client "notes" files on it, that he'd like to recover from a backup tape. Since Xenix seems to have been "wiped" from both his SCSI drives, his former "consultant" can't simply "restore" from the nightly backup tapes. A few attempts to re-install the Open Server 5.05 operating system have failed (install media may be too old???). Since there is no real NEED to upgrade to Open Server 5.0.7 (and stand that cost), I'm hoping we can find some method for reading the backup tapes and recovering ONLY the valuable files (possibly to a NEW file system - maybe as "flat ASCII files"). I hope someone can read the backup tape without having to get Ed to buy a new SCO license. He did contact his contractor, but without a system in NJ to restore to, the consultant may be "stuck". Of course,there might be some "security" which blocks restoration to a "different system", but I sure hope not. There'd have been nothing special in a TAR file (heck, if I could get it off the tape, I could read it ~;). I don't know much about "cpio" tapes or reading from cassette tape drives (some web postings claim that one needs an OLD Pentium 4 to get the cassette drive drivers to work using the expected interrupt numbers - YUCK! Is this something anyone locally can handle, without building an entire new SCO system? On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Pamela Lynn Howell <pamelahow...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just to close out this thread: > > The good news is that the missing consultant has "returned" > (claims he was on a "business trip"), and he worked on system > recovery this past weekend with an eye to getting the desired data files > OFF Xenix and on to some other form for easier access by their current > hardware. > > > What's the best way to thank the folks who helped with great references??? > > > See you later. Love, Dad (wc.how...@verizon.net) > > Thanks, everyone, for the great advice and references! As ever, LOPSA > folks rock and totally know their stuff. > ---p > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin < > atsaloli.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: >> ... >> > This is a good looking reference for some of the issue you might run >> > into: >> > >> > http://aplawrence.com/Linux/scolindiff.html >> >> A.P. Lawrence himself is available for consultation as well - he was quite >> helpful to me on a SCO Unix issue. Very knowledgeable. >> >> Best, >> -at >> > >
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