I've been running the Pick database system on SCO Unix system V for a while
now and am upgrading to Pick's newest release (D3) on rRedHat Linux 6.1.
Not wanting to upgrade both the OS and database on the machine I depend on,
I built a cheap Pentium white box. Linux installed fine. Since I use 4mm
DDS-1 for backup on the Unix system, I scrounged one up for my Linux system
($200 bucks for an HP 35470A).
Now my trouble starts. According to Hewlett Packard my tw DAT drives should
be 100% compatible (HP C1536A on SCO, HP 35470A on Linux). Neither one can
read tapes tar'd by the other! Both work fine by themselves.
I still have some stuff to tryout. A friend suggested I try tar'ing on a
3.5 floppy,if that was cross platform readable then the problem must not be
tar, but something about one or the other tape drive (or both). He also
suggested I try cat /dev/rst0 | od -c on a tape tar'd on "the other system".
There's cpio, and just cat'ing a text file to the raw device and trying to
cat it back off "the other one".
What I really want to be able to do is backup my Pick data from Unix and
restore it on Linux. Is that too much to ask?
thanks in advance for your help
Bruce ackman
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