Hi NG

I've just migrated from OpenServer 5.0.4 to 6.0, and I'm having some trouble
First of all, I cann't write to the tapes. I can read the tapes from the old
server by doing a cpio -vit < /dev/rStp0, but when I try to write 'find
.. -print | cpio -vocduB > /dev/rStp0' I get an error : cannot create
I've tried different devices nrStp0, xStp0 and different aguments to
cpio, -oc, but the result is the same.

I'm not that familiar with unix, and a newbie with osr6, but has anyone got
an idear?

Best regards

Stef

Hi Stef,

Are you really sure your tape is working?
Can you use the command: tape status or tape status /dev/rStp0
Try to write the tape with "tar cvf /dev/rStp0 .

Regards,
John

Stef wrote:
> Hi NG
>
> I've just migrated from OpenServer 5.0.4 to 6.0, and I'm having some trouble
> First of all, I cann't write to the tapes. I can read the tapes from the old
> server by doing a cpio -vit < /dev/rStp0, but when I try to write 'find
> . -print | cpio -vocduB > /dev/rStp0' I get an error : cannot create
> I've tried different devices nrStp0, xStp0 and different aguments to
> cpio, -oc, but the result is the same.
>
> I'm not that familiar with unix, and a newbie with osr6, but has anyone got
> an idear?
>
> Best regards
>
> Stef
>
>

Hej John

Thanks for the anwser, but the tape station works.
I tried making a backup with tar and that works.
For some reason I cann't use the cpio command to make backups with osr6, but
if I just can make it work with tar I'm happy with that.

best regards
Stef
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> Hi Stef,
>
> Are you really sure your tape is working?
> Can you use the command: tape status or tape status /dev/rStp0
> Try to write the tape with "tar cvf /dev/rStp0 .
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> Stef wrote:
>> Hi NG
>>
>> I've just migrated from OpenServer 5.0.4 to 6.0, and I'm having some
>> trouble
>> First of all, I cann't write to the tapes. I can read the tapes from the
>> old server by doing a cpio -vit < /dev/rStp0, but when I try to write
>> 'find . -print | cpio -vocduB > /dev/rStp0' I get an error : cannot
>> create
>> I've tried different devices nrStp0, xStp0 and different aguments to
>> cpio, -oc, but the result is the same.
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with unix, and a newbie with osr6, but has anyone
>> got an idear?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Stef
>>

On Sep 26, 1:29 am, "Stef" <pr...@igen.dk> wrote:
> Hi NG
>
> I've just migrated from OpenServer 5.0.4 to 6.0, and I'm having some trouble
> First of all, I cann't write to the tapes. I can read the tapes from the old
> server by doing a cpio -vit < /dev/rStp0, but when I try to write 'find
> . -print | cpio -vocduB > /dev/rStp0' I get an error : cannot create
> I've tried different devices nrStp0, xStp0 and different aguments to
> cpio, -oc, but the result is the same.
>
> I'm not that familiar with unix, and a newbie with osr6, but has anyone got
> an idear?
>
> Best regards
>
> Stef

May not be the problem but "-vocduB" doesn't make sense together. The
"d" and "u" will work reading a tape, not writing to it. Try a simple
"find . -print | cpio -ovc > /dev/rStp0" first. The other thing to
check is if
the tape is ready in time, does the tape start some action when you
write?

Mike