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linux dump reading on Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Beattie)
Mon Sep 29 21:25:24 1997
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:56:49 +1000
From: Grant Beattie <gb@aus.ml.org>
I'm sure this has come up before, so hopefully someone will know the answer..
background: my sparcstation running linux has an exabyte 8200 tape drive on
it, I backup my linux PC over the network with dump/rmt etc...
I would like to read the tape on Solaris, but I don't seem to be having
much success. ufsrestore has been segfaulting etc, regardless of what
block size I try.
Blocksize on the sparc is set to 0 (auto), and I've tried blocksize of
10k, 1k, etc reading on Solaris without much success.
The tape drive on the Solaris machine is an exabyte 8500, though I am
not sure if this makes any difference.
Also, it seems that tapes I create from the PC over the network
can't be read if I do a restore from the sparc directly, but work fine
if I do this on the pc: ufsrestore -if root@blah:/dev/nst0
I guess this has something to do with block sizes too (?)
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
grant
