RE: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

["Meier, Daniel W." <DANIEL dot W dot MEIER at saic dot com>]

The only tape drive I have that's capable of reading this tape is an
internal drive on a W2K box with Cygwin loaded.

I tried doing a remote ufsrestore from a Solaris server but got:
blade-100: ufsrestore tf backup:/dev/st0
connect to address 128.57.32.9: Connection refused

I probably need some Cygwin service to run to service the request, but which
one?

-----Original Message-----
From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn@cygwin.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:32 PM
To: Meier, Daniel W.
Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Meier, Daniel W. wrote:

> Any hints on how to get the files off of a SDLT tape created by Solaris
> ufsdump?
>
> I can access the tape handily:
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status 3
> tape capacity    : 34571200 KB          remaining        : 34571200 KB
> current block    :        0             write protected  :      yes
> datcompression   :      off
> min block size   :        4             max block size   : 16777212
> def block size   :     8192             cur block size   :        0
>
> Features:
> ---------
> [...]
>
> and I did the "mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0"
>
> but what command do I use to pull the data onto disk?

I beleive this can be done with GNU tar (tar -xf /dev/st0?). Take a look at
main/info tar and `tar --help'. I might be wrong.

Elfyn
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