Hi all,
I have a large number of backup tapes which were originally written with the AIX "backup" command. I now need to convert these to "tar" format, but unfortunately I no longer have access to an AIX machine. I have been able to connect the old tape drive (3590) to a Linux box and it works fine...
My question is, does anyone have any suggestions on how I might convert these tapes from AIX backup/restore format to GNU tar format? I don't really care about preserving the file permissions - I just need the actual files & directories.
Is there a Linux port of backup/restore I could compile up? If not, does anyone know what the data structure looks like so I can write a C program to extract the files? Is there a cpio/dd command which might do the trick?
Any help is greatly appreciated.