Solaris

already suggested this, tape doesn't work there. This is a good idea.

Thanks for your replies so far. Are u saying that after booting with the cd-rom I should be able to copy my etc files from the tape using tar xvf /dev/rmt/0n?
Counting on your usual patience.
Rahman

hm, well that would probably depend on cdrom.. I never tried it, but Corona says it won't work.
kind of strange that systemrescuecd doesn't enable using tape backup for restore.
btw, what filesystem is it, ufs?

if you don't have a third, working, server, here is another option. its a bit time consuming; you could emulate solaris9 for sparc on a ordinary PC with qemu.
so if you make dd image of server2 hard drive and tape backups, in theory you could restore /etc in qemu, then write back the image to real hard disk.

Corona what utilities were u talking about?
With this command
mount /dev/dsk/0t0d0s0 /mnt

will I be able restore from my tape?

In fact, am able to get the # prompt except that some of the disks can't be mounted. I also noticed that I can't even get the ok prompt.
When I start the server it always takes me to the # prompt.
Please help me.
Thanks

Depends if that's your disk or not. Also depends if that's the right partition of the right disk or not.

How you restore from tape depends on how you made the backup in the first place. You'd know that better than I.