fbackup

[Habib_4]

Hi guys,

Just wondering, how would I view what I have backed up up to tape?

I have just done:

fbackup -v -f /dev/rmt/1m -i /stand/system.d

How can I view the text I have just backed up? i.e. "/stand/system.d"?

Regards.

Habib

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Just do a "man frecover".

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Habib,

For new users the best way to go is an interactive interface.

sam
backup and recovery
Interactive Backup and Recovery
Choose a Tape device
Actions Recover files or directories.

Choose the file and then restore to an alternate location to look at the actual contents.

After you do this you can go back and look at the

Options
View Sam log

Listed there are the commands sam just used.

This is a great way to learn to do it from the command line, since frecover's man page is a wee bit complex.

SEP

[Habib_4]

Salam Steven,

Thank you for the info.
That is the issue I have with the man pages, they are quite complex especially for beginners like me.

Thanks.

Peace.

Habib

[Onur Karakan]

Hello Habib,

The following command writes the tape content to the screen. Also you can access to it under sam.

frecover -N -v -f /dev/rmt/1mn

[sysadm_1]

Hello Habib,

Try this command

frecover -I /tmp/index.txt -f /dev/rmt0

This will extract the index from tape rmt0 and store in file /tmp/index.txt

Rgds,
sysadm