>A few ideas, which might be useful for the future at least: 1) switch >to GNUTAR (I was using GNUTAR but had ended up switching to ufsdump due >to some problems); 2) there used to be a "binary compatibility layer" >that let you execute Solaris executables on Linux, but maybe that has >disappeared, or at least would probably require compiling a "custom >kernel"; 3) look for source code for ufsrestore, but I don't think it's >Open Source; 4) Can Solaris run under VMware on x86 architecture? 5) >look for Open Source libraries that can parse ufsdump format, or ufs >filesystem, and write your own code.
Thanks for this. I should of clicked that the command listed in the docs wasn't for tar. I do use gnutar, so the command would be: dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | tar xzvf -