MV-II Diags & Customer Diags

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun Mar 17 07:50:13 2002

Hi Doc,

You ROCK! I've been looking for the MVII diags for a long time
now!

'dd' will only make a copy of the first file, and there are many
files on the tapes, so you will have to do multiple 'dd's with
the non-rewind device, figure out the block size of each file,
and document that with the image.

In the past I have used 'dd bs=32768', then divided the number
of partial blocks in by the file size to get block size and the
file in one step. IE '0+278 records in', and a file size of 142336
means a block size of 512.

I would suggest choosing some naming convention for the files like
'MVII-DIAG-MAINT.001', 'MVII-DIAG-MAINT.002', etc and include a
shell script to create a tape from the files:

#!/bin/sh
dd if=MVII-DIAG-MAINT.001 of=$TAPE bs=512
dd if=MVII-DIAG-MAINT.002 of=$TAPE bs=10240
mt -f $TAPE offline
echo "Done"

At least that was my plan when I contemplated backing up tapes. These
files can easily be burned onto a CD-R for offline storage as well.

Regards,
Clint

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:

> I've aquired a copy of each:
>
> MVII DIAG MAINT TK50 AQ-GM5AN-DN
> MV DIAG CUST TK50 AQ-GL5AP-DN
>
> I'm going to try using dd to generate an image for duplication
> tonight. If I can make a bootable duplicate from the image, and if
> there are no licensing issues, I'll make the images available. Any
> interest or comments?
>
> Doc
>
>
>
>
Received on Sun Mar 17 2002 - 07:50:13 GMT