On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:25:49PM +0100, R.M. Evers wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > Yes I think the entire dump file would have to be passed to the > > client for extraction. It is nice that you are using similar OS's > > and backup programs (probably gnutar) on both tapeserver and client. > > > > But suppose your tapeserver were say linux on an Intel processor > > and the client were an HP-UX system, using vxdump/vxrestore, on > > an HP PA-RISC processor. There is no way the tapeserver could run > > the restore program, it has to send the dump image to the client > > that has the extraction program. > > Jon & Stefan, thank you so much for your fast replies and clearing this > up for me. Indeed I always use Linux and tar, forgetting some people > actually use other stuff :-) Shame on me. From now on I will just > recover my backups on the backupserver itself, and then transfer it to > my workstation. Lot faster (and probably safer) that way.
Some of us, with several OS's, can't do that. Another reason for keeping those DLE's small :)) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
