Tape to disk migration / cross-platform recovery via Solaris box

[aillas]

Hi all,

I am in the process of migrating many old tapes to a NetApp filer.
So, I fire up my old Solaris Networker 7.2.494 box, get my SSIDs and throw them at recover to extract the data to an NFS-mounted directory. This works almost painlessly with saved UNIX clients.

Apparently it gets messy, when I try to recover an old Windows server to the NFS-mount. It simply does not work as "Cross platform recovery not supported."

Can someone shed a light on my lack of Networker knowledge on how to recover data to some filer volume, preferably non-interactive.
Do I have to set up a Windows machine running Networker and use recover in a DOS box, like "recover -S <SSID> -d <somecifsshare>."

Thanks for any info

Peter

 

[605]

Hi Peter,

in fact, NW does not allow you to restore from Windows to UNIX/Linux and vice-versa. In your case, you must restore to a CIFS path on a Windows client and move it from here to another machine (NFS path or FTP or similar).

 

[aillas]

I installed a Windows VM, installed Networker client, mounted a CIFS share from the filer and restored files via user with Domain Admin rights.

It seems to work.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers

Peter