From: John P. Looney (valen at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Tue 08 Jun 1999 - 12:02:52 IST
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
--
Is PIRACY killing the Amiga?" bravely ponders AMIGA FORMAT -
well, either that or someone's stopped manufacturing the hardware.
-- www.ntk.net (30.04.99)
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