From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 6:52:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9282637B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmxpita.excite.com (nat7.excitenetwork.com [63.236.75.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059D443E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baszd-meg@excite.com) Received: by xmxpita.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 648568AF13; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT) To: bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: How to get back FreeBSD-dumped data with linux-restore. Received: from [193.158.99.90] by xprdmailfe2.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 09:52:43 EST Reply-To: baszd-meg@excite.com From: "baszd" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: baszd-meg@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Importance: High X-Priority: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20020702135243.648568AF13@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > There are a number of possible ways to handle this. Ok, I forgot some possibilities... > The first is to *not* use dump and restore at all, but to use one of the > many > portable solutions for backup and restore, such as "tar", > "cpio", "afio", or > "pax." That way, you can back up and restore from any old > system, and you > can switch, mix, and match backup servers willy-nilly. I think those old-school tools won't match my needs. I have to backup about 20 GB from that FreeBSD server. If I need maybe a file with a size of a few kb, than I have to wait hours to get it back (correct me if I'm wrong). > disk as long as the disk was mounted across the network to the Linux > machine All right, that's an idea. It would be easy to mount the slice via nfs (or even via smb), but the disadvantage is a weak security. > "restore" machine for dual-boot, since I presume that it's That would be feasible, but somehow circumstantial. > It also *might* work to use FreeBSD exclusively on the restore machine, > and > run the *Linux* restore under the Linux eumulator for doing the Mhm, could be dangerous as long as unexpectable flaws can occur. > Hope this helps. Yes, thanx! It helps to think about some alternatives. However I'll check out the dump | dd-thing first and see how reliable it is. cu, bm. ------------------------------------------------ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message