Solaris

Recently our Server Room got burnt and we lost everything including a sunfire V880 server. I had a backup and restored it on our 2nd server. I mistakenly restored the etc folder from the burnt server too. After rebooting the 2nd server I can't get the root directory and other volumes mounting. I have a backup of the etc folder of the second server on tape but also I can't start the tape drive to restore the backed up etc folder of the second server.
What should I do to get the tape drive to work to restore the backed up etc folder? We run Solaris 9.
Rahman

You can't expect it to boot with a trashed /etc. You'll have to boot a recovery environment of some sort, maybe a Solaris installer disk, and work from there, running utilities from a prompt.

What about the one I have on tape? How can I get my tape drive to work? Thanks for your response.

That's what I mean; you'd boot to a root prompt from some sort of recovery disk, and operate the tape from there. I don't think many machines support booting from tape these days.

What I mean is how can I use my tar command on the tape since when I type
[I] tar xvf /dev/rmt/0n

It tells me that device not found.
Rahman

The general suggestion seems to be deleting the device file then 'drvconfig ; tapes' but all the instructions I can find are for how to use tapes on a booted system, not a livecd...

perhaps you should boot recovery cd and restore etc on tape from there. you could also do it in some other, working, system.