S A M wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I have read your last mail very carefully,
> But I will use original st.conf  then I am not able to  detect my dds4 drive
> .
> I get following error
> 
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0l status
> /dev/rmt/0l: No such file or directory

That appears to be a problem with your device links. Please
ensure that your tape drive is attached, and then use "cfgadm"
to configure it. Read the cfgadm and cfgadm_scsi manpages for
more details. You might also need to run "devfsadm -i st"


> While if I make entries in st.conf 
> I am able to tar files in tape drive and able to restore also.

Ah, on reviewing the source
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/scsi/targets/st_conf.c#1760

I see that the driver is looking for a different identification
string than what your tape drive is providing. In that case, yes
you will need the st.conf entry.


> Now I have two more quarries 
> Why I am getting unexpected token at line 80 error

Because you have a word on line 80 which is not expected by
the driver.conf parsing routines. Remove the line which contains


  Example:


and you should be fine.

> Is there any way to backup in solaris and restore in Microsoft.

Once I got past the vagueness of your question, I remembered
that there are two basic ways to do cross-OS backup and restore.
These are to use tar, or cpio.

Of these two, I strongly recommend you use cpio unless you can
find an implementation of Joerg Schilling's "star" for MS-Windows.
You will need to use the Cygwin version of cpio on MS-Windows.


> James can you please send me how to of amanda

http://www.amanda.org provides all the information you need
to use amanda.


James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
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                   http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp
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