John D. Amidon wrote: > > Anyone know how to make Debain's `restore' command correctly read a DAT tape > written on on a Sun? The backup was made with the following command: > > dump 0bdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/rst1 /home > > I've tried various things, I even read the SCSI-HOWTO and still no joy. I > believe the drive is working fine, since I can read `cpio' backups from a > Sun just fine.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the format used by "dump" isn't cross-platform compatible. You should stick to tar or cpio. Hope this helps, --Amos
