Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:34:35 -0400 From: "Mark B." <mkbucc@gmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-platform dump and restore? Message-ID: <59f4cb420807020934p3404d7bei9307e4526922c90c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080702182055.Y2069@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <59f4cb420807020759o797a33c7xf295b0066e9d9256@mail.gmail.com> <20080702182055.Y2069@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> If I dump on amd64 should I be able to
>> extract files from the dump on i386?
>
> i'm almost sure yes but please check
>
I did and it does.
>>
>> If so, should it be possible to restore a
>> FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386?
>
> probably not.
>
You are correct.
# gunzip -c var_www_log.1214712054.1.dmp.gz | restore -i -f -
. is not on the tape
Root directory is not on tape
abort? [yn] y
dump core? [yn] n
# uname -a
OpenBSD dev.example.com 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386
How did you guess?
m
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