Re: tape dump between solaris and linux

"ntu" <jesmanchou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i had used sony AIT tape backup data in solaris system, and the solaris
getting old, i moved the tape drive on pc linux system. and this AIT
tape drive is woking good for accessing new tape, but when i dump the
tape whick backup in solaris system that was not work, and always show
out the "reading error" message. i am sure the solaris tape data was
good, but i am not understant why the different system could not data
transfer!!

The dump/restore programs which can be used with tapes are low level
programs closely related to a particular file system. The solaris dump
program is able to dump data from a Solaris udf file system. However, to
restore that backup you will also need a Solaris machine which knows how
Solaris udf works.

My guess is that it would have worked better if you would have used some
high level program like tar to make the backup. However, with tar you
would probably lose ACL information.

Another thing that could differ between Solaris and Linux is the default
block size on the tape. You might be able to fix that using the mt
command.

regards Henrik
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