Re: SCO UW disaster recovery

In article <45ccd559-d45a-4a9b-8b4b-5bfa078be4af@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mvsguy <kkinney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

[second followup - wjv]

Whats your time worth?
D
My time? I have to show up at least 8 hours each day. I might as
well do some work...

I've cleverly disguised my handle to cover the fact that I'm an MVS
guy. Mainframes. I know how important DR is.
I've had a full on disaster caused by IBM applied hardware
maintenance. We only lost 18 hours of data. Later that month, we did
our first DR test. We did amazingly well.

Thank you both for trying, but buying software is simply not in the
cards.

IMO - as I mentioned in a prevous post - VERIFYING that the data
on the tape matches exactly is quite important. And actually
when you perform a restore, run the verify software to make
sure the data on the HD now matches the tape.

Years ago - one my Esix 5.3 [system] [I got tired of waiting for
the SCO 5.3] I ran a program call cktar - which acted remarkable
like the bit level verify on a program called C-tar that came out
a bit later.

If you want to put in a bit of effort search for the alt.sources
hierarchy [probably stored somewher] and look for cktar by
Wareen Tucker. It will be in the fall of 1990 archives, and
it will be about a 14K .c file tucked inside a shar archive.

I used to use it all the time when I was backing up to floppies,
as it would find an error every few disks.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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