Please put responses below quoted text -- it makes the conversation much 
easier to follow.  Fixed below.

On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 11:36am, Gavin Henry wrote
> From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu]

> > Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by 
> > ufsrestore/ufsdump I'm assuming you mean the Solaris backup utilties, 
> > which I'm pretty sure haven't been ported to Linux.  You can still search 
> > through a tape by using 'dd' to read the file headers.  When you find the 
> > right image, 'dd' it off the tape, send it to a Solaris box, and use 
> > ufsrestore on it.
> 
> Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux?

You could try just plain 'restore', but I highly doubt it'll be able to 
read Sun's ufsdump format.  If you need cross-platform capabilities, then 
use tar for your backups rather than dump.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University