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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
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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