Re: Restoring SCO backup onto HP-UX

From: David Tuff (tuff1_at_antispam.bigpond.com.nospam)
Date: 02/16/05


Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:30:11 +1100


"connect" <pamato@ultradata.com.au> wrote in message
news:cugliu$mo6$1@news-02.connect.com.au...
> Hi,
> A client of mine has given me a cpio backup which was done on a Sco box -
I
> don't have a Sco box but an HP-UX.
> I have successfully put down the data using dd and pushing it through cpio
> as a standard cpio gives me errors.
> The data is in jibberish which can be deciphered using the od -c command.
> My question is what I do now to get the data readable for use.
>
> Much appreciated
>
> Pedds : )
>
>
>
>
>

You may want to look at the b,P,s options if the SCO box was little endian



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