gihill@thunder.UUCP (Geoff Hill) (06/16/89)
Perhaps someone can help us with a problem we have with UNIX 'dump' tapes.
We have a SUN-3 running SUN O.S. v3.4 and an old VAX 11/750 running
bsd4.2. Both have seperate tape-drives to do daily, weekly, etc. backups
using 'dump'. However, the 11/750 will be leaving shortly and we need to
be able to restore files from old archive 'dump' tapes that were created
on the 11/750. It doesn't work. 11/750 tapes created with 'dump' cannot
be read by the SUN 'restore' utility. It just aborts with the error:
Tape is not a dump tape.
SUN software support say that what we are trying is unsupported and we
will have to pay them extra for a fix !!. I assume (hope?) that someone
else has already crossed this bridge successfully. Do they have a modified
version of SUN's 'restore' that would work. Any other advice or
work-arounds are appreciated.
Geoff Hill
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