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Restoration using pax

Jestin John Chacko — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:10:45 GMT

i had taken an archive using the command

pax -w -v -x pax -f /dev/rmt/11m .

now i want to restore the same data from the tape to a directory.

wheather its pax -c -f ,is it nececcery to provide w option here.

Re: Restoration using pax

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:31:52 GMT

Shalom,

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90779docs/B2355-90779docs.pdf

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90680/index.html

SEP

Re: Restoration using pax

Jestin John Chacko — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:26:28 GMT

Dear,

1>I had gone through the man pages with that i tried the command

pax -rw -f /j2/bib /dev/rmt/11m but its showing errors

i have to restore the data from the same above tape to the dir bib will u please suggest any method

2>also one more error is there when i try

pax -f /dev/rmt/11m -v for viewing the files its showing device busy

Re: Restoration using pax

Dennis Handly — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT

>i want to restore the same data from the tape to a directory.

cd /j2/bib
pax -r -v -f /dev/rmt/11m

>is it necessary to provide -w option

No, you are reading. You can use -w -r for copying.

>pax -f /dev/rmt/11m -v for viewing the files its showing device busy

Did you terminate any previous process? Is the tape rewinding?