[ILUG] restore solaris ufsdump on linux box ?

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 06:17:06PM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> and the answer is yes. In the spirit of earlier remarks about list quality,
> I'm not guessing here. I used ufsdump to dump about 4M of stuff to a file
> which is on a volume NFS mounted on a Linux box. I used restore on Linux
> and it restored just fine, with a remark when I started restore (I did it
> interactively) of
> Note: Doing Quad swapping
> which is presumably something to do with endianness. It extracted everything fine
> and I did a diff on a 500K tar file which was OK so I think we can pronounce that
> experiment a success.
 
 Biggest thing to remember is that Solaris formats tapes with 20k block
sizes. GNU stuff likes 10k block sizes. I lost the contents of my home
system because of this oversight. If it gives you errors like "I/O error",
run:

 mt blksze 10240

 and it should work.

> P.S. No, I don't believe that "There's no such thing as a stupid question" and
> neither would you if you had ever worked in technical support of any sort :-)

 As we used to say in tech support "there's no such thing as a stupid
question, just stupid people". Or my personal favourite "There's no such
thing as a stupid question, but stupid people that bother techs with inane
queries that should die slowly and horribly like the dogs they are".

Kate

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