From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 13:57:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28C237B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8816543E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:57:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a204.otenet.gr [212.205.215.204]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g61KvBmW017601 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:57:12 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g61GK9vV006546 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:20:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g61GK9Bo006545; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:20:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:20:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: baszd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get back FreeBSD-dumped data with linux-restore. Message-ID: <20020701162008.GB6453@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020701134109.31ED08AEC6@xmxpita.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020701134109.31ED08AEC6@xmxpita.excite.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-07-01 09:41 +0000, baszd wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD (rel. 4.5) fileserver and a Debian (patato, > > kernel > ... > > After all I'm not sure whether the problem is Linux-restore or > > FreeBSD-dump. Maybe somebody has a clue? > > Somebody had. Sorry, but I lost that mail. Thanx anyway for > answering. He said, that this problem is filesystem-specific and I > have to use tar or pax instead of dump. It was a matter of > blocksizes and I had to rewind the tape before the dump and before > the restore. If somebody is interessted in this topic, the whole > thread can be found here : > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1111/2002/6/0/ and current postings: > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1111/0/ AFAIK, what you were doing is not always a good idea. You were trying to use the Linux restore program to restore data from a tape that was written with something like: freebsd% dump /foo | ssh -l user linux.machine 'mt -bar' linux% restore /tape You should not attempt to restore on Linux data that has been created with FreeBSD's dump program. It's not guaranteed to work. The format of the dump files created by FreeBSD is not necessarily something that the Linux version of restore should understand. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message