a work around i've used on systems where amrestore is not avialable is to us dd to get to the restore archives on the tape. works well when booting off of cd's into single user mode on solaris systems.
dd if=<tape device> bs=32k skip=1 | ufsrestore -ivf - Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi all! > > Dan wrote: > > >>Just to see if it would work, I tried to restore a Solaris (2.5.1) >>ufsdump using NetBSD's restore. To my surprise, it worked, modulo >>Solaris ACLs, of course. Amanda's amrecover won't restore them, >>however -- it complains that it can't find ufsdump/ufsrestore, and >>symlinking them to dump/restore doesn't appear to help. >> >>Is there any way around this? Tar takes quite a bit longer on my >>system, and bogs it down more, so I'd rather be using dump if it's >>possible. >> > > Unfortunately I can't try it anymore or even give you a hint > about our setup, but 2 years ago when we had still 2 Solaris > machins running we did all backup on FreeBSD servers. > > We routinely restored files backed up from the Solaris Amanda > clients on the FreeBSD Amanda server - no problem whatsoever. > (ufsdump/ufsrestore and dump/restore respectively) > > IIRC we did get an informational message about byte swapping > but besides that everything went as it is supposed to. > > On FreeBSD I always install Amanda via the ports collection, > that would be pkgsrc on NetBSD. On Solaris I compiled it myself > but can't remember anything "special". > > HTH, > > Patrick M. Hausen > Technical Director > -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
