Author: curtis AT backupcentral DOT com (W. Curtis Preston)
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 14:16:27 -0700
AND... You must also NOT set your FRAGMENT size to anything other than zero if you want to be able to read NBU tapes with tar. (Yes, even if you have multiplexing off. Try it sometime.) Hal, you shou
Author: jfielden AT excitecorp DOT com (Joshua Fielden)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:04:51 -0700
This is mostly true, in our experience. At the fragment boundries, you'll lose some files, but the bulk of the data will be there. No, this doesn't mean architect for it, but sometimes 'some' is bett
Question: Is it possible to read backup tapes made with Veritas NetBackup using standard bakcup utilities. I have read on many sites that this can be done, but have not been able to find any methodol
Yes...but only if they were created on a UNIX machine. You need NT to read tapes created on an NT machine. You can use TAR to read the tapes, but it is recommended you use the TAR program provided wi
Author: Harold Skelly Jr. hskelly AT colltech DOT com
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:33:58 -0800 (PST)
To add to Steve's reply, there is also the caveat that you must not be multiplexing backup streams onto a tape. The blocks are interleaved such that the GNU Tar utility cannot read it. This also supp
Also the NT tapes are essentially in a GNU tar format, so you can read it on a UNIX box as well, so long as it's not MultiPlexed. Now the big thing when you go to read a tape by hand is to use the no
Author: Rasana Atreya rasana_atreya AT hotmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:04:48 -0800
Actually there is a Tech Note on Veritas' Web site detailing the steps to do this. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://e