Re: [ILUG] restore solaris ufsdump on linux box ?

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Thu 03 Jun 1999 - 17:27:08 IST


Andrew McCormack wrote:

> Anyone know if it is possible to restore files from a tape that was
> created using the solaris ufsdump command on a linux box ? (or on a
> HP-UX or AIX system)

I don't know a huge amount about tapes, but if ufsdump is the same as the dump
command
on linux, then it will restore. But it will restore to a writable by linux
partition, so it
may make a mess of stuff if you want to restore a whole system, but if
you just want a file or two, it _should_ work <g>

Running dump from a BSD box to rmt on a sun box works, but I dunno if the sun
would be able
to read the tape.

(last time I tried dump and rmt on my machines here, I managed to overwrite the
rmt executable with
the dump data :()
Regards
L.



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