topic Re: make_tape_recovery verification in Operating System - HP-UX

make_tape_recovery verification

Dan Matlock_1 — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:02:06 GMT

This may be a dumb question, but on Itanium 11.23 can I verify the tape using TAR just like on the RISC? My version of Ignite is 6.7.79. I tried the TAR verification and it failed....

Re: make_tape_recovery verification

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:09:26 GMT

Hi Dan:

For Itanium systems, do:

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 22
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0mn

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: make_tape_recovery verification

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:12:02 GMT

Shalom,

The only true verification is to use the tape.

Once in a while you need to plan a test and restore a system.

There are a lot of things that can go wrong what won't be caught by running tar against the tape.

SEP

Re: make_tape_recovery verification

Dan Matlock_1 — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:17:44 GMT

fsf 22 was the answer, thanks.....