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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: solaris and exabyte 8500 tape drive
Lisa Lewis wrote:
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> My Oracle Sever is on a Solaris machine running 2.61. We have an exabyte
> 8500 (I think) tape drive. I cannot seem to use tar rvf to add files to my
> archive, I get an error. The system guys tell me it is a known problem with
> this particular tape drive and Solaris. They say I cannot use 'tar rvf'.
> Does anyone have similiar problems. What was the workaround. I want to
> archive my archive logs to tape several times a day. I don't want to have
> to do an entire 'tar cvf' everytime I want to archive my logs to tape. The
> system guys tell me to use ufsdump. Is this a feasible solution? I am
> nervous because when I read the man pages for ufsdump, it says the file
> system must not be mounted or I must be in single user mode.
>
> Thanks very much for any information!!
ufsdump is fine...
One nice thing with ufsdump is that (assuming your archives are on a separate file system) is that you can do incrementals...
Thus (for example):
8am each day: ufsdump 0uf /dev/tape_device_no_rewind /arch_file_sys --
get all files
10am: ufsdump 5uf /dev/tape_device_no_rewind /arch_file_sys -- get all
new files (since 8)
12pm: ufsdump 5uf /dev/tape_device_no_rewind /arch_file_sys -- get all
new files (since 10)
14pm: ufsdump 5uf /dev/tape_device_no_rewind /arch_file_sys -- get all
new files (etc)
HTH --
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