Please put responses below quoted text -- it makes the conversation much easier to follow. Fixed below.
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 11:36am, Gavin Henry wrote > From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by > > ufsrestore/ufsdump I'm assuming you mean the Solaris backup utilties, > > which I'm pretty sure haven't been ported to Linux. You can still search > > through a tape by using 'dd' to read the file headers. When you find the > > right image, 'dd' it off the tape, send it to a Solaris box, and use > > ufsrestore on it. > > Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux? You could try just plain 'restore', but I highly doubt it'll be able to read Sun's ufsdump format. If you need cross-platform capabilities, then use tar for your backups rather than dump. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
