>From Mark Stapleton: >> As far as I know, cross-platform restores are possible among >> similar plattforms, like ( Win*, OS2)or (all unixes) >> and only does not work between those groups, e.g. win->unix.
>Nope, sure can't. I can't restore a file from a JFS filesystem (AIX) >to a QFS (Sun) filesystem. Unfortunately we're just single vendor, so I can't test this, but is it because of the big endian versus little endian data storage scheme? I doubt it's the filesystem method selected, because the structure of the filesystem is OS dependent and Tivoli really just backs up directory entry information and files (with associated access detail). If you have the ability to test it, try restoring a small file, and when you look at it and it is garbage, run the UNIX command dd if=infile of=outfile conv=swab and then check the outfile (swab means swap a for b, that is, big to little or little to big in byte order). Now, this only works for small files, that is, files where you have room to run the conversion, but if this is a critical file and you have space, it might be a way to get at the data. Can you let us know? -drs- David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE Senior Systems Analyst