Re: ontape - how to verify whats on the tape

On our system I ran the following, cat -vt </dev/mt05|more The Informix version, date, time etc were in the first page and the dbspaces that are meant to be on the tape were in the second page. I have not investigated further but assume a c program could be written to check the tape, numbers of pages in each dbspace etc. This may however be a non-trivial task. Peter Brueton John Hitchinson <hitchij2@boat.bt.com> wrote in article <333AE182.3C74@boat.bt.com>... > Dear all, > > HPUX10.01 and Online 7.11 UC1 > > Given the recent messages concerning ONTAPE recovery errors. Does anyone > know how to verify what dbspaces have actually been backed up to the > tape, ignoring output from the archive reserved page. In effect does > anyone know how to interpret the contents of the tape archive? > > Thanks in advance > John Hitchinson > Open Systems DBA > British Telecom >