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Re: Help me! Restore NT files to unix.

1998-08-07 12:24:15
Subject: Re: Help me! Restore NT files to unix.
From: "Thomas A. La Porte" <tlaporte AT ANIM.DREAMWORKS DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:24:15 -0700
Bruce is correct. I believe the only clients that can do
"cross-platform" restores are those that share filesystem types.
For example, an OS/2 client could restore a FAT filesystem that
had been backed up via the win32 client.

I believe that in this case your only solution, presuming the
originating NT no longer exists, is to restore the files to
another NT or Windows system, then move them to the Unix system.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks Feature Animation
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Bruce Elrick wrote:

>Ack!
>
>You make it sound like we are hiding something from you!  The developers
>never intended to do cross-platform restores between such different
>filesystems, so the code for one client was not designed to handle the
>structure another uses.
>
>ADSM uses 4 names to identify a file:
>1) Node name - arbitrary
>2) Filespace name - on UNIX, a valid filesystem mount point, i.e. it
>must start with a '/', on NT a vaild drive label.
>3) High-level qualifier/name - on UNIX, the part of the path below the
>filesystem up to the directory in which the file resides, on NT the part
>of the path from the root of a drive down to the directory the file is
>in.
>4) Low-level qualifier/name - the name of the file
>
>On my win95 machine I was not able to relabel a drive to have a '/' in
>the lead character - it was illegal.  However, on the ADSM server I was
>able to rename my FAT32 filespace name to '/foo'.  With that renamed
>filespace, I was able on win95 to do a 'query backup {/foo}\*' and show
>the top level directory.
>
>However, in spite of using having a valid UNIX mount point for a
>filespace name, I could not successfully query from AIX about the win95
>files.  I suspect that it has to do with the directory separator for
>UNIX being '/' and for NT being '\'.  I am not surprised.  I am not sure
>why you are.
>
>Cheers...
>Mark Brown (CC Operations Supervisor) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to
>>
>> #1 Get a list of all files from node2 to node1.
>>
>> #2 Restore the files from node2 to node1
>>
>> I am using node1 to list node2 files. Node1 and node2 are diff. sys.
>>
>> node1 = a unix sys
>>
>> node2 = a NT sys
>>
>> Yes folks. The systems differ.
>>
>> I am certainly having problems with filespace names and destination.
>>
>> Node2 (nt) name=xxxxx     node1(unix) name=yyyyy
>> filespace name               whocares
>> ============================================
>>
>> CPDS_System
>> servercplus
>>
>> NOTE: The filespace names have no "/" in front of them!
>>
>> >From node1 I have tried many different things but cannot restore the
>> iles. NEVER mind the system diffrence. I want them restored from an NT
>> system to a UNIX system.
>>
>> No BS please from manuals!! I've tried them all but keep running into
>> syntax errors.
>>
>> I want all files from node2 restored to node1 in a directory of my
>> choosing. WHAT IS THE #$#$#@!@! syntax.
>>
>> Node2 has files. Node1 has the rights to get them.
>>
>> Or at least:::::::How do I list file from node2 to node1  ?????
>>
>> Who can help me?
>>
>> Thank You,
>>   Mark Brown, Operations Supervisor
>>   McGill University, Computing Centre
>>   Phone (514) 398-2321
>>   E-Mail --> ccmb AT musica.mcgill DOT ca
>>   Home Page --> http://mbrown.cc.mcgill.ca
>
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