Re: Importing from UNIX to NT via Tape...

Yeah, this is a real bummer - but surely somebody must be thinking that tar, cpio and dd for NT is an "opportunity" - aren't these present in some of the much-advertised "turn your NT server into a pseudo Unix box so your Unix proggies will feel more at home" packages? Not that I'd want to buy the whole shooting match, I'd be happy with the tape utilities and one or two other snippets...

In article <6d6b8v$mdc$1_at_hermes.is.co.za>, Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> writes
>Lee Bradbury wrote in message
><01bd42ab$34ac7480$4a675cc3_at_pccomms-lee.synectics-solutions.com>...
>>We have a tape containing a backup of an Oracle server, this is 3.5 Gb on a
>>DLT tape.
>>We now have an NT System and want to import the backup into NT. NT does not
>>recognise the Tape, so in what way can we import it.
>
>
>Not possible with the standard NT tape backup program as it only support NT
>backoops format.
>
>>I have tried to use the IMP73 command but have had no luck, can someone
>>point me in the right direction ?
>
>Yep. E-mail complaints to bill.gates_at_microsoft.com ;-)
>
>I'm sure there must be some 3rd party tape software for NT that supports
>multiple formats that may be able to read your DLT tape. Also, unlike Unix,
>you can not specifying the tape device name as a filename parameter (e.g.
>you can not import directly from tape under NT). AFAIK NT has special i/o
>API calls for tape devices that differ from the standard i/o calls for
>accessing a file system.
>
>regards,
>Billy
>
>
 

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