On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 04:38 America/New_York, Paul Bijnens 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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Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511
This is what I've been most concerned about. Originally, I tried using
tapelesslinuxbox> setenv RSH ssh
tapelesslinuxbox> sudo dump -0uf remotesolaristapehost:/dev/rmt/0cn /usr
where I had set up ssh keys between the two boxes root accounts. This
dumped fine (I believe), but I couldn't restore from (and verify) it
because Solaris couldn't read the linux dump. Without removing the
tape drive from the Solaris box, how can I restore the dump to the
Linux box? Do I need to use Amanda/amrestore for this part?
Still appreciating your responses,
Jurvis LaSalle
ps If I should just gnutar it all and be rid of dump, knock twice...
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