From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 20: 7:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27F937B405 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6S37dF71933; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:07:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6S37Yw16631; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:07:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200107280307.f6S37Yw16631@harmony.village.org> To: Sergey Babkin Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:17:41 EDT." <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> References: <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> <200107270444.f6R4iBw09131@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:07:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> Sergey Babkin writes: : > Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose. : : Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these backups : on a non-FreeBSD machine. Unless it runs NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux or SunOS. ufsrestore is pretty universal. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message