Google Books has "SCO Unix in a Nutshell" online. It has pretty good information on the commands SCO had available.
Evidently SCO has a 'backup' command that is a wrapper for cpio. But the 'sysadmsh' was suggested as a better system backup command. sysadmsh has both a command line and 'full screen' modes. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > Good idea! File utility would recognize the tar magic number. > > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Oh, did I tell you that the incumbent OS is SCO Openserver 5 and that my >> > colleagues don't remember if they used cpio or tar to generate backups? >> > >> > When I attempt to dd data off of backup tapes, I get an immediate stop, >> no >> > records read. >> > >> > I have found a program on SourceForge called Safecopy that seems to read >> > past that first halt. But Lord knows what random bits I have read to >> > disk... >> > >> > Any data forensics folks in the crowd? Where the fire do I start? >> >> Start with the 'file' utility. It reads the first few bytes of the >> file to tell you what's stored on the media. >> >> -- >> Tilghman >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
