Restoring Netware compressed files to a Windows disk

[fiddler]

Hi, all,

I'm trying to restore a tape with some Netware compressed files, and am running into some problems. Specifically, I get the following error messages when compressed files are encountered:

"Compressed data format is incompatible with the restore target."

I did a search of the Veritas support files, and found the following:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/237537.htm

From the looks of this, the problem is that Netware compressed files are incompatible with Windows disks. But we really need to restore these files if we can.

Short of setting up a Netware server, is there any way around this?

Thanks muchly.
Elizabeth

 

[eggo]

As far as I can tell, no. Obviously you had a Novell server at one time or another. If it is still active you still need to have the compression on at least the restore volume, or you can't even restore to Novell. You could always install a temporary IDE drive in the Novell server and make it a compressed volume just for the restore, then move the data to an uncompressed volume. If you don't still have the server then the Novell build is the only way to go. Sorry about that.