From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 12: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F36937BDE4 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fosburgh@flash.net) Received: from jefnt (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA20676; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:57:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <015601bfe845$a2158510$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" To: "Paul Orr" , References: <200007071843.LAA65303@jetsam.com> Subject: Re: dump/restore between Solaris and FreeBSD Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:00:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Orr" To: Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: dump/restore between Solaris and FreeBSD > > What can I do to restore to Solaris that was backed up on FreeBSD > or vice versa? Or what do I need to do to make sure that future > dumps are transportable? > > Thanks.... > > Paul Orr > I would imagine that dump/ufsdump files are not compatible between the OS's. I suppose they might be (Solaris UFS is FFS isn't it?) but you likely won't find dump/ufsdump/xfsdump/backup to be compatible across any operating system. You would do better to use tar or cpio for data interchange, but those too have limitations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message