How to archive second Altos 986T disk to tape???

Terry Rhodes terryr at rtech.UUCP
Fri Mar 18 12:33:30 AEST 1988


I have an altos 986T (T systems are different than non-T systems),
running Xenix 3.0C. Recently i added a second hard disk.  No
problems there, the installation went perfectly and everything
runs fine.

The problem is that i can not figure out how to backup/restore
the second disk to/from my streaming tape.  The menu based utilities
included with my system only have options for the primary disk.

These utilities are scripts and i have followed the primary disk
backup/restore down to where i know that the program, archive,
does the actual backup, and the program, recover, does the actual
restore.

My problem is that i can find no documentation on how either of
these two programs work and what arguments they need.  I have made
educated guesses based on the commands for the primary drive but
nothing seems to make it through an entire backup/restore cycle.

If you know how to make these program go, or if you have a 586T or
986T with 2 disk drives and are backing up both drives i would
greatly appreciate hearing from you, disk space on my first
drive is critical and i can't start using the second drive until
i can back it up.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.


have a nice day,

terry b rhodes
rtech!unix::terryr,	415-671-9775 (home),	415-748-3565 (work)



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