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Hi all, I backed up an old alpha server using the 'dump' command with the no rewind option. By doing this, I put multiple file systems on one tape. The only problem is, now I want to restore the 3rd file system on the tape and not the first two. How do I go about doing this? Is there a way...

ok, i did both. nothing popped up for either. however, if i do a 'show config' it looks like it is detecting the scsi controller. so now 2 more questions: 1. what is the digital unix naming convention for a scsi controller? aka, what is it going to look like in /dev? 2. the disks appear...

Hi all, I've just plugged a scsi controller into a digital 2100. how do i ensure that it has been detected? none of the drives that are plugged into it are being detected. thanks. mike Mike ~~~~ simanek@illinoisalumni.org "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~

i've hooked up a disk to my scsi chain and have successfully (i think) run disklabel on it. now how do i format this partition with the ufs file system? thanks. mike Mike ~~~~ simanek@illinoisalumni.org "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~

Hi all, Say I have two hosts uxa and uxb. Does anyone know how I could set things up so that any and all traffic that goes to uxa simply gets forwarded to uxb and all traffic coming from uxb looks like it is coming from uxa? I'm fairly certain this is possible through ipforwarding but i have...

it returns "2". what whacked out temperature scale is this thing using? Mike ~~~~ simanek@illinoisalumni.org "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~

nope, tapes are the right kind. and i'm using smit to perform the backup, so the command line stuff wouldn't apply. good thoughts though. Mike ~~~~ simanek@illinoisalumni.org "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~

the exact message is: the backup media may be damaged. Use a different disk to run the backup. it can't be the tape as I have tried with several different, brand new ones and if fails in the same spot every time. Mike ~~~~ simanek@illinoisalumni.org "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~

has anyone heard of a corrupt file making a 'backup' fail? for some reason, i can perform a backup on 3 of my 4 logical volumes but the 4th one is failing with a 'media error' 0511-079. i'm using smit to perform the backup and i know it's not a bad tape or drive (since i can backup the other 3...

we're running a rather OLD version of digital unix...OSF/1 actually. To give you an idea, uname -a returns: OSF1 hostname V4.0 878 alpha Is it possible to determine the temperature that the processors are running at? I know you can do it in Solaris and AIX but I am very new to digital unix...

this may or may not be helpful... i know i've done it on an ultra 5 running solaris 8. It had 2 internal ide chains and I set the jumper on the drive to cs (cable select) plugged the drive in and did a Stop-a and then probe-ide-all and then rebooted. it detected just fine. I would assume...

hi all, i know that if i use the system or exec functions i can execute a command quite easily. the problem for me is that i need the output produced by the command I execute (i.e. vmstat, iostat, prtdiag, etc.). does anyone know of a trick to get the output from a system call? thanks much...

When making a backup with ufsdump, will the size of the dump file be the same size as the filesystem (or at least, the used portion) that was backed up? Apparently I've got a little over 8Gb on an oracle partition and it happily fit itself all on a little 4Gb tape. Hmmmm... The man pages...

nope, but i was rooting around my eeprom settings and found that i had the following two lines: ttyb-ignore-cd=true ttya-ignore-cd=true i can't reboot it and check for another few hours, but would these two lines cause it? Mike ~~~~ simanek@uiuc.edu "It's a Swingline!" ~~~~