[olug] (Slightly OT)copying data from Solaris computer

[Craig Wolf]

Got this from a friend.  His friend sold his tire business and the new
owners are trying to keep his data/system.  I don't know if the DB is
SQL but any ideas to help him out would be GREATLY appreciated!  Can you
run ghost on a Solaris box?  Is there an alternative to ghost in the
Unix world?  Has anyone heard of this DB system and has ideas for
exporting the data??  I am going to check some other avenues as well...

Thanx for any ideas!!

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283


>>> Forwarded Message 12/15/2004 >>>
The Sun workstation the programs and data are on is identified as a
sunw.ultra -5.10, sparc sun4u.  The OS says Solaris Open Windows 3.6. 
The program on the system that has all the financial data and inventory
and customer databases is ASA Tire Systems version 4.9.0 for Solaris and
is dated 06/09/00.  What I am hoping to do is either export the customer
and tire database information to a Windows based computer so that the
new owners will have their copy of the data and be willing to release
the old Solaris workstation and the programs and data on it.  A second
option I was considering was copying all the contents of the drive to
another hard-drive and then either looking for a used Solaris system
somewhere are finding some other system that would be able to retrieve
the data.