I received many many replies to my request for help about which tape format to use to save data from Solaris and restore on Linux. Lots of good advice, but also many misleading answers, and some just completely wrong! It seems that many people consider tapes to be more of an art than a science... I decided in the end to download the GNU tar version from www. sunfreeware.com, install it onto my machine, copy the executable to the tape backup machine (I don't have root on it) and run it with the "M" option to span tapes. I'm making the second set of tapes as I write this. I'm a bit worried because the first archive I made ended with a strange error message although it seems to have written all the data. ~/tmp/S8/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Any ideas what this means? Regards, Nick Nick Pettefar Nick@Pettefar.com Tel. +49 1728 176 804 DoD 1069 MAG 73516 ZZ-R1100 To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question Hi, I don't know if anyone knows the answer to this but here goes... I have a user that's leaving and wants to take 38gb of data and reports with her to her new job. That's OK but they are using Linux and we have Solaris here. They have DDS4 tape drives and so do we. Will x86 Linux read tapes made by /usr/ccs/bin/dump or /usr/sbin/ufsdump from Solaris 8 SPARC? I want to re-use her hard drives after she has left so I need to know that her data will be transportable. Regards, Nick _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Sep 15 12:12:29 2003
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