vrestore cmd using tapes

[administrador]

Hello; Could you please tell me how can I read my Backup Tape, Using vrestore tool??? Thank´s a lot...

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

As menthioned before, you can only read with vrestore if you backed up the data with vdump.

Identify your tape device:

If V5:

hwmgr v d -cat tape

Use:

vrestore -tf /dev/ntape/tapeXc

Where X is the tape number. This will only work if you backed up the data with vdump, like this:

vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tapeXc /usr