Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:37:30 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <3B6368DA.6A56D0EE@bellatlantic.net> References: <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261309400.837-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <200107270444.f6R4iBw09131@harmony.village.org> <200107280307.f6S37Yw16631@harmony.village.org> <3B625232.CAF39600@yahoo.com>
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Jim Bryant wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <3B6212B5.FDFEB694@bellatlantic.net> Sergey Babkin writes: > > : > Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose. > > : > > : Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these backups > > : on a non-FreeBSD machine. > > > > Unless it runs NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux or SunOS. ufsrestore > > is pretty universal. > > FreeBSD dumps also restore just fine under HP-UX, I've done so under 10.20 and 11.0. HP-UX restore will automatically do the Hm, I think I've seen problems with restoring them on HP-UX and SCO OpenServer but I'm not sure. > byte-swapping. FreeBSD and GNU tar will not restore correctly to HP-UX, but dump/restore does work fine. GNU tar archives from FreeBSD definitely worked for me without any problems, at least for HP-UX 10.20. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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