topic Re: list contents of a tape in Operating System - HP-UX

list contents of a tape

Paul Wright — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:34:18 GMT

I want to list the contents of a backup tape to my temp file and I am using the following command:
frecover -rNvf /dev/rmt/1m > /home/xxxxxx/temp
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong because it is not working.

Thanks
Paul

Re: list contents of a tape

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:36:53 GMT

Try the following:

# frecovery -I /tmp/tape_list -f /dev/rmt/1m

The -I option lists the index file on the tape.

# man frecover

for more information.

Re: list contents of a tape

Massimo Bianchi — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:37:24 GMT

Hi,
if you want to have the list of the content of your tape, just use the following sintax:

/usr/sbin/frecover -f $TAPE -I $I/DDS.indice

$TAPE your tape 1m

$I your directory
DDS.indice the name of the file

This will recover the index of what was backed-up.

HTH,
Massimo

Re: list contents of a tape

Darren Prior — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:45:14 GMT

Hi Paul,

You've got 2 main options here:

1) frecover -I /home/xxxxxx/temp -f /dev/rmt/1m will give you the index from the tape - this is a list of files *intended* to be backed up, and can be read quickly off the tape. Files that change between the time the index was created and the backup actually got round to them won't be on the tape.

2) frecover -rNvf /dev/rmt/1m 2> /home/xxxxxx/temp will read the whole backup and list each file name on the tape. The 2 is needed as the list of files is written to stderr rather than stdout.

regards,

Darren

Re: list contents of a tape

Helen French — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:45:59 GMT

You need to use the -I option:

# frecover -I /tmp/frecover_list -f /dev/rmt/1m

Use with -v for verbose option. The command which you used is for checking the data on tape without doing an actual recover (-N option). Read man pages for more information.

Re: list contents of a tape

Dario_1 — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:52:48 GMT

Paul:

Try the following

frecovery -I /tmp/fbackup-list -f /dev/rmt/1m

man frecover for more information.

This is from the man page

-I path The index on the current volume is extracted from the backup media and is written to path.

Regards,

DR