Toomas Aas wrote:

I have a mixed Linux/Intel Solaris/Sparc environment. The tape drive resides on the sparc box. Will I be able to restore dumps to the Linux box using amrestore?

Yes, if you run amrestore on the Linux box.

Be aware that if you made your backups with ufsdump on Solaris,
then you can indeed read the bytes off the tape under Linux, but
you can't do much more.  That's why I use GNUtar for my backups,
so that I can cross-restores to Linux / Solaris (or even MS Windows).

You can of course migrate the amanda tapeserver from Solaris to Linux
and still be able to restore ufsdump-ed backups from Solaris on a
Solaris client machine (even the former amanda server).

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