--- cvisors_at_carnagevisors.net wrote:
> there is also dump & restore, if the Sparc is running solaris there is
> ufsdump and ufsrestore, and finally if all else fails tar
> these programs should allready be (dump and restore) on the redhat box.
You misunderstand the direction I'm going. I have magtape with data
already on it. I want to extract that data into a file or set of
files on the disk that I can then burn to CD-R. I can use dd to move
raw records, but I would like to also know what the block size was
for a particular file so I could reconsitute the tape later if
necessary. I'm not so worried about the VMS BACKUP tapes I need to
spin off - I want one saveset per file. If I want to dup any install
tapes (non-VAX), the blocking becomes more critical.
Essentially, a physical backup that is primarily for data recovery,
but secondarily for later restoration.
I do not intend to use magtape as a primary backup media for Linux
or Solaris. Writing tape is not a concern here, only reading. I
do know how to operate dump/restore, tar, etc. They are of _no_ use
here.
> Benjamin
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> > So I finally got this TSZ07 (to) archive a mountain of magtape...
> > What tools are people using for tape archiving under Linux or Solaris?
(by "tape archiving" I mean "archiving *of* tape, not *to* tape; sorry
if my exact phrasing here is confusing. I thought there was enough
context to show what I was trying to do).
-ethan
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