Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:58:07 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Is dump different? Message-ID: <35c231bf0510181058q4fcff723k6b04a1769a6cd49c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200510181954.59889.vdemart1@tin.it> References: <200510181954.59889.vdemart1@tin.it>
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On 10/18/05, vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> wrote: > I have a new desktop with netbsd 2.0.2 and a portable with freebsd 5.4 (m= y pet > OS but it didn't boot on the compaq evo 510 box; therefore netbsd!). > Now, I had dumped my previous old desktop with **** freebsd 5.4 **** to a > samba share and then tried to restore some files interactively with "rest= ore > -i -f mydumfile" ont the new box but restore (under netbsd) complained t= hat > there was no root directory and i couldn't restore anything (e.g. ls didn= 't > show anything). > My question is: > the dump programs in netbsd & in freebsd are different in some way, I mea= n > structurally different therefore somewhat incompatible in the two OSs? Quite likely. dump is different between FreeBSD 4 and FreeBSD 5, and unfortunately there does not appear to be a "backwards compatibility mode".
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