Archecker

So I find 15 unlabeled tapes surrounding a dual tape device at a customers site. None have labels. Using onlog, archecker and tar, I managed to identify most as archives, logical logs, or tar. I have a few that are not logical logs (onlog reports tape format not recognized). They are not tar tapes. Archecker gives me the following (can be 2, 4, 5 != 1, archive would easily fit on one tape) I have matching values from onconfig in ac_config.std (it is possible tapes are very old and have different block sizes, but I would not expect the following message). # archecker -tdsv Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A Program Name: archecker Version: 4.4 Released: 02/22/99 17:24 Compiled: 02/22/99 17:26 on SunOS 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 AC_STORAGE /tmp AC_MSGPATH /tmp/ac_msg.log AC_VERBOSE on Please put in tape number 1. Type 1 <return> or 0 to end: 1 Wrong tape number 4 != 1 Please put in tape number 1. Type 1 <return> or 0 to end: 0 Scan PASSED Control page checks PASSED Table checks PASSED BLOBChunk checks PASSED Tables/Fragments validated: 0 tcopy finds a couple thousand records on the tape. Dbimport could not read the tape either (guessed on sql file). Any information is greatly appreciated! I have educated the customer on labeling, storing and rotating archive and log tapes. Thanks! Sam