Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsb!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: dump and restore(1M) on hp-ux 2.1 Message-ID: <5030@hplabsb.HP.COM> Date: 8 Dec 88 18:19:55 GMT References: <109@geysir.os.is> <1310004@hpdstma.HP.COM> <6964@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 17 In article <6964@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lynch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes: >I asked for the patch and got a tape that seemed to be a tar tape -- no >directions came with it. Tar extracted something called "restore.nca" >in a directory named HPUX0100 or something close to that. At that point >I could not figure out what to do with restore.nca, nor could I get an >answer from the HP Response Center except to tell me that the tape was >not a tar tape and I should use cpio! I dutifully tried cpio and got >_nothing_ from the tape. The .nca filename suffix implies that the file is a Named Cpio Archive. So use Tar to read restore.nca onto disk, then use cpio to read restore.nca as if it were a tape. -- David Smith HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com