[SOLVED] Using CPIO for backup

Noewon · 08-21-2012, 07:46 PM

Hi

There's supposed to be a nightly backup running which never returns any errors, so the boss assumed it's working fine.

The command inside the nightly script which runs the backup is:

Code:

TAPE=/dev/st0
# Ensure that the device is valid
if [ ! -c "$TAPE" ] ; then
        echo "$TAPE is not a character device - ABORTING!"
        exit 1
fi

find . -path './mnt' -prune -o -path './tmp' -prune -o -path './sys' -prune -o -path './proc' -prune -o -print | cpio -ocB >$TAPE 2>&1

when I try "cpio -t /dev/st0" I get nothing, the prompt just sits and after awhile, I abort out (ctrl-C)

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Code:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ServeRA  Model: RAID1-Mirror     Rev: V1.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: Ultrium 2-SCSI   Rev: S65D
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03

mt -f /dev/st0 status

Code:

SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x42 (LTO-2).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

how else can I check the contents of the tape and verify something is being written to the tape?

There is only one tape drive, how do I confirm /dev/st0 is the right device?

fpmurphy · 08-21-2012, 10:14 PM

Have you tried?

Code:

cpio -t < /dev/st0

Noewon · 08-21-2012, 11:37 PM

Thanks, this put me on the right path.

Code:

cpio -t < /dev/st0

gives me:

Code:

cpio: read error: Cannot allocate memory

which is fixed by:

Code:

cpio -tB < /dev/st0