Well, the tape drive is accessed.  I think that it't the big Indian
little Indian thing but we may just go with creating a TAR and FTPing it
to the new server.  thanks!

Bill Crawford wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> 
> > 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 $TAPEDRIVE
> >
> > At this point we get a file not found error.
> 
>  I think Keith already nailed this one.  On my box I only have
> 
>         [bill@pikachu bill]$ ls -l /dev/rmt*
>         crw-rw----    1 root     disk      12,   8 Feb 21 19:26 /dev/rmt16
>         crw-rw----    1 root     disk      12,   6 Feb 21 19:26 /dev/rmt8
> 
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NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
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