From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 22:48:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D3BE37B406 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jul 2001 05:48:35 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B625232.CAF39600@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:48:34 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Sergey Babkin , James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda References: <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> <200107270444.f6R4iBw09131@harmony.village.org> <200107280307.f6S37Yw16631@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Warner Losh wrote: > > 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. FreeBSD dumps also restore just fine under HP-UX, I've done so under 10.20 and 11.0. HP-UX restore will automatically do the byte-swapping. FreeBSD and GNU tar will not restore correctly to HP-UX, but dump/restore does work fine. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message