We have a Tandberg tape drive with files that were backed up from a SCO Unix 5.0.5
machine via tar that we would like to restore to our Win 2000 PC. Is there an inexpensive way of doing this? A better way of doing this? The SCO network is corrupted.

I'm not familiar with SCO myself, I use BSD (both free and open) but tar is tar. Put the tar files on any unix based PC, untar them, then copy the untar'd files over where they need to be. You could use a DVD, CD or USB memory key to move the files (depending on size) if you have problems creating a network drive.

The Unix box is an old P2 era machine and not capable of writeable CD or DVD

get win32 untar

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problem is how could i access the tape drive on window as we can use the command rct0 is a device on unix but in windows what it suppose to be any idea !!!

First you need to get winders to SEE the tape.

How is it connected?

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it is connected using the scsi card.

does the card see it?

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The Unix box is an old P2 era machine and not capable of writeable CD or DVD

Odd, my old PII 350 had a CD burner in it and it worked fine....with both Windows and Linux. Just because it doesn't have one in it right this second doesn't mean you couldn't add one.

Also, as I said before, you could untar on the UNIX box and map a network drive and copy the files over the network to the windows PC. Alternatively, depending on size of files, you could put them on a USB key to move them.

A third option would be to install UNIX on another, newer, PC that has a burner. Which in the long run makes a lot of sense if you're using UNIX for your backups.

I'd just send the tars over the network. But that's me.

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Me too.......LOL.........and I'd use either my OpenBSD box, my FreeBSD box, or one of my 3 Linux boxes to untar it first.......

Of course, if there's a freeware tar app that runs on windows, that solves everything without any hassles........but I wouldn't know about that.....

http://www.numerical-recipes.com/ut...

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Ok guy's i found the resolution

the thing here the network is not working because the library is currupt due to transportation of the system.

else i will do the same.

SOLUTION : ---

make sure your windows has a scsi driver properly installed

and than get the mt.exe from net which is freely available it is a utility to operate tape drive in windows environment.

now you just need to get file from tape drive and it is just a simple command

mt read xyz.tar

and it will do the rest of the things

thanks everybody for your time but now it is working fine

Good to hear. And thanks for responding with your resolution. It may just help someone else with a similar issue in the future!