Thank you to Dr. Thomas Blinn, Greg Freemyer and Udo de Boer for responding
to my question regarding the error messages I was getting when I attempted
to list the contents of a DLT tape on a TZ88 tape drive.
I missed including the following information in the following information in
the initial message. On a Digital Unix 4.0E, Alpha 1000/300 platform writing
to a TZ88 tape drive cpio Oracle database files I did the following
commands.
find /d0[123]/oradata/prod -type f -print | grep -v 'arch' >>backemup.dat
cpio -ovC65536 <backemup.dat> /dev/rmt2h
then I wanted to list the contents of the tape with
cpio -itv -I/dev/rmt2h and received error messages eg. Bad Magic Number,
may be corrupt.
however as suggested I altered the command to list the contents as
follows...
cpio -itvC65536 -I/dev/rmt2h .... specifying the block size originally used
in the copy and it works!!
Thanks again,
Lorraine Ambrosio
DBA, Cominco, Ltd.
Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 23:15:25 NZST