Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:42:52 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "Mark B." <mkbucc@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-platform dump and restore? Message-ID: <20080702154252.GB38419@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <59f4cb420807020759o797a33c7xf295b0066e9d9256@mail.gmail.com> References: <59f4cb420807020759o797a33c7xf295b0066e9d9256@mail.gmail.com>
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--ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Mark B. wrote: > If I dump on amd64 should I be able to > extract files from the dump on i386? Yes. =20 > If so, should it be possible to restore a > FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386? Probably. OpenBSD 4.2 supports UFS2. > Note there is ticket that may be related: >=20 > bin/67723: >=20 > restore(8) FreeBSD 5.x restore cannot handle > other platforms/Linux(extfs)-dumps anymore >=20 > ref: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D67723&cat=3D This should be closed unless it is still reproducable on 6.x or 7.x. The release mentioned is ancient. > I thought the dump file format was sacrosanct. > Has there been heresy here? The BSDs all use variants of UFS, and dump/restore understand UFS1 & 2. The EXT2FS in use on Linux is a different animal altogether. I'm surprised that it ever worked.=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhrofwACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUaBQCghAgao59+8c9CfOk4eD8ta3j1 twIAninc2Nx9Ero2rN2QdCh+0mY3ZAiE =t2ch -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZoaI/ZTpAVc4A5k6--
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