Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:01:43 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> Subject: Re: backup Message-ID: <200402241301.43710.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <403A9361.5060500@stevenfettig.com> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAYzSznVi3fkWJYCR3viDFqMKAAAAQAAAA30CINh4UKEm/uYMfcCdnMgEAAAAA@planet-richard.com> <403A9361.5060500@stevenfettig.com>
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> You would need to use piping to restore the backup, though and that can > get tricky if your new system that you need to restore the data to isn't > sized the same as the old and isn't using the same version of dump. Woha, timeout. Are you saying 'dump' produces files in a format *not* guaranteed to work with 'restore' on another system if it is not running the exact same version of FreeBSD? Or having the same file system size? I had always assumed - given that it's a backup tool - that the format of the dump was portable. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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