Identifying backup client was Unix or Windows?

[UnixSkunk]

Hi,
Does anyone know the process to find out if a client that wrote to a tape was Unix or Windows? Does it matter when you are trying to restore the data off of the tape?
Someone asked me to tell them if the data on a tape I have came from a Unix client or a Windows client, and I'm curious what te most efficient way to find out is. ANy help would be much appreciated.

 

[mlmmilkyway]

hi,

In viewing the clients using nwadmin there is a Client OS type that should tell you which os the client is running. It doesn't seem to know each individual Windows versions though, I have one client that I know is Windows 2000 but the Nwadmin view says Windows NT.

Mark

 

[UnixSkunk]

Hi, mlmmilkyway,
That would work, except this tape is from a different legato backup server. I'm not sure how to go about getting the information on the tape moved to the new Legato server, and then how to go about browsing the information on the tape. If the client was from this server, it would probably be easy. Since it wasnt....I'm not sure how to find out this information....

Thanks...

 

[605]

Run "nsrinfo client_name" and stop the output. The pathnames
should tell you the sectret.

 

[UnixSkunk]

Hmmmm. Maybe I'm explaining this wrong. I dont know much about Legato. Assume you were handed a new tape. Its from off-site. You dont know where it comes from. Someone says, "Tell me if the data on this came from a Unix ox, or a Windows box". What are the steps I need to go through to find this out? Sorry. I'm a bit of a newbie to this.
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[wallace88]

Put the tape into a tape drive that is connected to a NetWorker backup server, for example /dev/rmt/0cbn.

Then use the scanner command to view its contents, for example:

scanner /dev/rmt/0cbn

This should list out all the savesets that are on that tape
and also what clients they belong to.

To get more information, run it with -v option:

scanner -v /dev/rmt/0cbn


Windows savesets are uniquely different that Unix savesets, so you should know right away. However, that may not tell you what flavor of Unix it came from.

 

[sdeb]

You don't care where it comes from, you're gonna be able to read it from a UNIX or Windows Networker Server and to import it in nay kind of bases.

The only restricition is that you won't be able to restore DATA between Windows/UNIX/Netware...

 

[wallace88]

The data can only be restored to systems with the same file type as where the data was backed up from.

Even in Unix... if you backed up from a Solaris box, you may not be able to restore to another Unix flavor. It depends on whether the file systems used are the same.

This is why, for example, you cannot restore Netware onto Unix

 

[UnixSkunk]

Thank you everyone. That was exactly the information I Needed! Scanner is an incredibly useful tool. Too bad the tape they gave me was a tar based tape and not a Legato tape, which is what I was told. I did a tar tvf on the device, and it showed the files. Thanks again, you guys are awesome...and I'll be putting scanner to use quite often.

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