Re: View Archive Tapes

Posted in 1996

Juha Eklund — Wed, 04 Sep 1996 14:43:11 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"Chris Youll" <cyoul@dillon.com> wrote: >Is there a way to view what is on an archive tape created with tbtape -s >to verify if it is a level 0, 1, or 2. tblog -l -d <device> |pg will let >you see what the starting log number is for the backup. Have you tried to do the following: dd if=/dev/rmt/xxx of=/tmp/file bs=10240 count=1 and then od -bc /tmp/file | pg ( I think that the archive-level is indicated in the beginning of the file ?!? ) -- Juha -- >Thanks, >Chris Youll >Database Administrator >Dillon Companies, Inc >(303)393-4113 >cyoul@dillon.com