Jonathan I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the file grabber.
If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled on my systems. My current version of gnutar is 1.12, I can't remember if this works with amanda or not?? -- martin Jonathan R. Johnson wrote: > Dear Amanda users, > > We have a legacy Sun Sparc II server (SunOS 4.1.3) that was, until > recently, our only file server with a tape drive (an Exabyte 8200, 2.3 > Gb capacity). We're in the process of centralizing files onto a RedHat > 7.2 server running Amanda 2.4.2p2 (from the RPM -- no problems) with a > Sony AIT-1 (SDX-300C) tape drive. > > Unfortunately, getting files off the Sun is proving to be tricky, due > in large part to its outdated networking software. I briefly tried to > use NFS to mount a server file system on the Sun and copy over the > files, but the NFS mount didn't work right...not my strong suit, > anyway. I've also tried various combinations of tar and rsh, to no > avail so far. > > For now, I had hoped to just configure Amanda on it, even though this > server will be taken off line as soon as its files have been securely > set up on the new file server. My first hurdle, though, is that the > GNU tar 1.13.25 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar is not compiling > properly (we compiled and installed gcc 2.3.3 a long time ago), > encountering parsing errors in intl/loadmsgcat.c. Maybe this isn't the > simplest way to take our files off this server... > > I'd love some suggestions here. Ideally someone just knows where I can > get tar 1.13.19 or newer precompiled for SunOS 4.1.3. Otherwise, I'd > probably have to recompile gcc with updated sources, etc. In the short > term, I suppose I could try using the existing dump software. > > We need to back this thing up before it dies!! :-) > > Regards, > > Jonathan >
