SUMMARY: restoring NT files on a Solaris machine

Hi All,

Here are the suggestions that I received in response to my
question:

- several people suggested that I try GNU tar, or a tar compatible
  program for windows.  A couple people specifically suggested the Cygwin
  version of GNU tar.

- a few people suggested that I use Samba.  Then I could nfs mount
  the filesystem and copy the data.

  Someone suggested that if I have NT boxes at both sites I could install 
  samba on the solaris machine; use ntbackup/networker on the nt machine 
  in the remote site to backup the files; use ntbackup/networker on an 
  nt machine on the local site to restore files and then copy the files 
  to the solaris box afterwards .

- Someone suggested using Winzip, or something similar, to create
  .zip files.  Then, you could put this on tape, restore on the
  Solaris box, and extract it with unzip.

- try the "dd" that comes from http://virtunix.itribe.net/mystuff.html.   

- A couple of people said that using Solstice Backup/Networker
  won't let you restore PC based backups to a Unix system.

- One person told me not to do this because I'll lose the 
  NT ACL's if you restore to a non-NTFS filesystem.  They said
  that I could probably reset the permissions by hand if it's just
  a few files.


Many of you wanted to know why I don't want to use ftp.  My
customer said the file sizes are very large, like 100gig.  That'll
take forever with ftp.

Thank you all so much for your input!!

Nicole

--- Original Post ----

Hi,
I know this may be somewhat offtopic, but I've been searching
newsgroups all afternoon with very little success.

We have to transfer large amounts of data from a remote NT
machine to a Solaris machine.  Since the files are large,
ftp isn't an option.  We're thinking about backing up
the data from the NT machine to a DLT tape drive on the NT box, then
restoring to the Solaris machine from a DLT on the Solaris machine.

Has anyone done this successfully before?  What software do you
use? 

We were thinking about using Solstice Backup (and Networker on NT), but
we don't want to have to scan the tape in before restoring the
data.

Thanks!

Nicole Skyrca
AppliedTheory Communications Inc.        Phone: 315-453-2912 x5861
125 Elwood Davis Road                    Fax: 315-453-4594 
Syracuse, New York 13212