Re-index DAT tape made by fbackup

[Ying-Chang Chen_1]

Hi all,

I made a full backup of a system (K220, HPUX 10.20) with fbackup. The original tape was damaged and we sent it to a data recovery company to dump out whatever on the tape.

I am just wondering is there any way I can reindex the tape?

Thanks,

Michael

[Frank Slootweg]

Can you please explain what you mean by "re-index"?

If you mean to get the index/table_of_contents, once the datarecovery company has recovered/'dumped' the tape (to another (new) tape?), then you can use frecover:

/usr/sbin/frecover -I /tmp/index -f /dev/rmt/...

to get the index (i.e. what is *supposed* to be on the tape) from the tape

or/and

/usr/sbin/frecover -r[m]vN -f /dev/rmt/... 2>/tmp/filelist

to get the filelist (i.e. what *is* actually on the tape) from the tape.

I hope this helps.