From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 12:54:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2D737B860; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:54:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12203; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:53:46 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:54:02 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody have tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreebSD? In-Reply-To: <20000329204851.C2044@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah- and if you fund a public domain version of this, maybe you can also find something to read old DSC or BRU tapes? :-) On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:59:52PM +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Does anybody know of tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreeBSD? > > I have a number of such tapes, and would prefer to read them on an (Intel) > > FreeBSD box instead of having to reinstall DU on a machine which has had > > its disks wiped. > > Vdump, the dump incarnation for Tru64 AdvFS, can to the best of my knowledge > only be read by vrestore. I'm afraid your stuck to using a T64 box for this. > > -- > Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message