On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:25:49PM +0100, R.M. Evers wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:14, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > 
> > Yes I think the entire dump file would have to be passed to the
> > client for extraction.  It is nice that you are using similar OS's
> > and backup programs (probably gnutar) on both tapeserver and client.
> > 
> > But suppose your tapeserver were say linux on an Intel processor
> > and the client were an HP-UX system, using vxdump/vxrestore, on
> > an HP PA-RISC processor.  There is no way the tapeserver could run
> > the restore program, it has to send the dump image to the client
> > that has the extraction program.
> 
> Jon & Stefan, thank you so much for your fast replies and clearing this
> up for me. Indeed I always use Linux and tar, forgetting some people
> actually use other stuff :-) Shame on me. From now on I will just
> recover my backups on the backupserver itself, and then transfer it to
> my workstation. Lot faster (and probably safer) that way.


Some of us, with several OS's, can't do that.
Another reason for keeping those DLE's small :))

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