Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:20:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: baszd <baszd-meg@excite.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get back FreeBSD-dumped data with linux-restore. Message-ID: <20020701162008.GB6453@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020701134109.31ED08AEC6@xmxpita.excite.com> References: <20020701134109.31ED08AEC6@xmxpita.excite.com>
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On 2002-07-01 09:41 +0000, baszd wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD (rel. 4.5) fileserver and a Debian (patato, > > kernel > ... > > After all I'm not sure whether the problem is Linux-restore or > > FreeBSD-dump. Maybe somebody has a clue? > > Somebody had. Sorry, but I lost that mail. Thanx anyway for > answering. He said, that this problem is filesystem-specific and I > have to use tar or pax instead of dump. It was a matter of > blocksizes and I had to rewind the tape before the dump and before > the restore. If somebody is interessted in this topic, the whole > thread can be found here : > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1111/2002/6/0/ and current postings: > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1111/0/ AFAIK, what you were doing is not always a good idea. You were trying to use the Linux restore program to restore data from a tape that was written with something like: freebsd% dump /foo | ssh -l user linux.machine 'mt -bar' linux% restore /tape You should not attempt to restore on Linux data that has been created with FreeBSD's dump program. It's not guaranteed to work. The format of the dump files created by FreeBSD is not necessarily something that the Linux version of restore should understand. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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