Actually, this is probably operator error.
The stock Solaris tar does not support remote tape devices. If you need this kind of support, you will need to install GNU tar.
Dave Atkin wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Artur Shnayder wrote:
Hello, I wonder if anybody had experience with reading tar format tapes from device, that connected to Network Appliance. I tried from Solaris machine "tar xvf netapp:nrst0a" ... and got "netapp:nrst0a: No such file or directory". ufsdump utility works fine.
Netapp's implementation of the rmt protocol is at best "minimalist" and at worst wrong. Earlier this year I spent a few happy hours with a protocol analyser and found that filers don't respond properly to tape drive status requests and hence some clients won't talk to them. That may be the problem in this case.
I reported this to Netapp some time ago but I don't know if anything happened. It's probably fixed in a future major release of their no-upgrades-needed OS!
Dave Atkin, Head of Technical Services Computing Service, University of York, YORK YO10 5DD Phone: +44-1904-433804 (ddi) Fax: +44-1904-433740 Email: D.Atkin@york.ac.uk
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