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Backing Up the Program on a TIstar Model 20

Created by: BOCallen at: 9/26/2006 10:59 PM (2 Replies)

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9/26/2006 10:59 PM	Rate (0)
BOCallen Posts: 2 Rating: (0)	There was no response when I posted a reply to a different thread, so I'll try starting over here. -- we have a TIstar Model 20 -- we want to make a backup tape I have an operator who has done the partial backups, but when he tries to do a full backup, it always fails. He eliminated the possibility of a bad tape drive and a bad tape by using 3 different tape drives, and many different tapes. All fail at the same point in the backup. So Siemens' tech support says he must have a bad sector on the hard disc, at a sector that's not needed during run-time. Since the system is so old, he desperately wants to make a good backup of the system. Can he do so withsome unix commands? I presume that the dd command won't work, because that does the whole image. The other way to approach it is to mark the bad sector as bad so the normal TIstar backup doesn't choke on it. How would that be done? There's a badblocks command in Linux, does this exist in the Unix used for TIstar? Or some command that does the same thing? Other information: The tape drive is an Archive model 2150L and uses a 150 Mbyte DC 6150 3M Data Cartridge tape. Out of desparation, the operator even tried floppy discs. When he reached disc 85 out of 110, the system choked again, with an I/O error message. TIA Allen
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9/29/2006 11:47 AM	Rate (0)
smart Posts: 17 Rating: (0)	Allan, did you try to use the command CPIO. I don't know exactly if it works. Please look in the online manual (man cpio) in unix environment. Possible command could be "find myfolder -depth \| cpio -ocvd -O/dev/rmo0", where rmo0 is here MO drive and "myfolder" is the location of backup fileson HDD. Probably you must use other switches. regards, Stefan
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10/6/2006 12:53 PM	Rate (1)
Tomcat Posts: 433 Rating: (48)	Hello smart, you have to login as administrator (root). Tomcat Attachment Backup.zip (1083 Downloads)
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