Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:00:31 -0500 From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" <fosburgh@flash.net> To: "Paul Orr" <Paul.Orr@jetsam.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump/restore between Solaris and FreeBSD Message-ID: <015601bfe845$a2158510$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> References: <200007071843.LAA65303@jetsam.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Orr" <Paul.Orr@jetsam.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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