topic Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING in Operating System - HP-UX

MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

Pat Copland — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:40:28 GMT

How can I mount my DDS2 tape device to browse the contents on the tape?

"ioscan -fnC tape" yeilds:

H/W Path 8/16/5.3.0
Driver stape
list of other files (dev/rmt/0m, dev/rmt/0mb..)

Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:50:26 GMT

It depends on how the tape was written...

tar = tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m
fbackup = frecover -r -N -f /dev/rmt/0m
etc.

Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:56:07 GMT

I don't have a system in front of me
at the moment but I believe the mt
command will do that... it does for
ignite tapes at least, I believe they're
either pax'ed or tar'd.

man mt

Hope that helps,
Bill

Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:09:33 GMT

a couple more for the pile:

strings /dev/rmt/0m
dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/dev/`who -uRm |awk '{ print $2 }'`

Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

Kevin Ernst — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:42 GMT

You mean mount for random access, like floppies and CD-ROMs? I don't believe that's possible (at least with stock HP-UX), *or* practical. Use the appropriate command-line options for the backup utility used (as shown in Kofi's posts) to produce an index of what's on the tape, and peruse that.

Re: MOUNT A TAPE DEVICE FOR BROWSING

f. halili — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:28:58 GMT

I think it depends on how that tape was created.

If you use cpio:
# cpio -itv < /dev/rmt/Om

If you use tar:
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt0m

`fnhalili`