From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Thu 03 Jun 1999 - 19:17:06 IST
Andrew asked
> 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)
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.
There is the small matter of tape compatibility, but I take it as read that you have
compatible tape drives on both boxes (because otherwise it would have been a hell
of a stupid question :-)
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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 :-)
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