You can use the tapes, the differences lie in the way the different OS's handle densities and start/stop points (at least on my Exabyte 8505)...
What kind of drive and media are you using? I know the setting required for my Exabyte 8505DX on X86 Redhat, X86 Solaris, and Sparc Solaris. Corey > I always like to do relative tarballs rather than absolute. > > cd to dir to tar then issue > tar -cvf mytarfile . > > compress mytarfile > ftp it to linux box > > cd to dir where to untar then issue > tar -xvf mytarfile . > > HTH, > > Gene > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/02 11:41AM >>> > backup from sun: > TAPEDRIVE=/dev/rmt/0 > WORKDIR=/export/home/SUNarchive > tar -cvf $TAPEDRIVE $WORKDIR/passwd > > restore to linux: > TAPEDRIVE=/dev/rmt/1 > WORKDIR=/local/restore > cd $WORKDIR > tar -xvf $TAPEDRIVE > > At this point we get a file not found error. > > Bill Crawford wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > > > > I have some Solaris servers we are migrationt to Red Hat Linux. What I > > > was hoping to do is write the data that we want to move from the Solaris > > > box to the new server to tape, put the tape into the Linux box and > > > restore the data. There seems to be an incompatibility in the way the > > > tapes are written by these to operating systems though. When we put the > > > tape into the drive on the Linux server, the tape is accessed and we get > > > a "file not found" error. Any pointers would be appreciated. > > > > Can you tell us what program you are using to create the tape, and a > > little more detail about the error you are receiving when you try to > > extract the data? > > > > Silly question: have you written somewhere after the beginning of the > > tape and then rewound it so your Linux box is trying to read the start > > of some data that has since been overwritten? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > > Janyne Kizer > CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 > Systems Programmer Administrator I > NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences > Extension and Administrative Technology Services > Phone: (919) 515-3609 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using XINFINITY WEBMAIL. http://www.xinfinity.net _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
