From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 9:53:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sleipner.eiffel.dk (sub19-229.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.19.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BBB37B435 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from froekjaer.org (danevirke.eiffel.dk [216.99.212.67]) by sleipner.eiffel.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA7I9M965190; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flemming@froekjaer.org) Message-ID: <3BE97532.4090007@froekjaer.org> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:53:54 -0800 From: Flemming Froekjaer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011016 X-Accept-Language: en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Mitchell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine References: <000701c167b0$380ff740$1680010a@msapama.apama.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Scott Mitchell wrote: >As the subject says, I'm trying to backup the contents of a large RAID array >on a Debian Linux machine and restore it onto an even larger RAID on a >FreeBSD box. I figured something like this would do the job: > I can't find it right now, but I'm sure that you can't use dump/restore to move files between Linux and FreeBSD. dump works on file systems, not files, and the file system is different on the 2 OS. \Flemming To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message