2 May
2002
2 May
'02
11:43 a.m.
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- cvisors(a)carnagevisors.net wrote:
I realized after looking at the message again, oh well, I was just trying
to return the help I have recieved off this group many time...
Benjamin
there is also dump & restore, if the Sparc is
running solaris there is
ufsdump and ufsrestore, and finally if all else fails tar
these programs should allready be (dump and restore) on the redhat box.
You misunderstand the direction I'm going. I have magtape with data
already on it. I want to extract that data into a file or set of
files on the disk that I can then burn to CD-R. I can use dd to move
raw records, but I would like to also know what the block size was
for a particular file so I could reconsitute the tape later if
necessary. I'm not so worried about the VMS BACKUP tapes I need to
spin off - I want one saveset per file. If I want to dup any install
tapes (non-VAX), the blocking becomes more critical.
Essentially, a physical backup that is primarily for data recovery,
but secondarily for later restoration.
I do not intend to use magtape as a primary backup media for Linux
or Solaris. Writing tape is not a concern here, only reading. I
do know how to operate dump/restore, tar, etc. They are of _no_ use
here.
Benjamin
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> So I finally got this TSZ07 (to) archive a mountain of magtape...
> What tools are people using for tape archiving under Linux or Solaris?
(by "tape archiving" I mean "archiving *of* tape, not *to* tape; sorry
if my exact phrasing here is confusing. I thought there was enough
context to show what I was trying to do).
-ethan