Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:19:55 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Mark B." <mkbucc@gmail.com> Cc: "Mark B." <mkbucc@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-platform dump and restore? Message-ID: <20080702161955.GB46892@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080702153530.GE46386@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <59f4cb420807020759o797a33c7xf295b0066e9d9256@mail.gmail.com> <20080702153530.GE46386@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:35:30AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Mark B. wrote: > > > If I dump on amd64 should I be able to > > extract files from the dump on i386? > > > > If so, should it be possible to restore a > > FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386? > > > > Note there is ticket that may be related: > > > > bin/67723: > > > > restore(8) FreeBSD 5.x restore cannot handle > > other platforms/Linux(extfs)-dumps anymore > > > > ref: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67723&cat= > > > > I thought the dump file format was sacrosanct. > > Has there been heresy here? > > I am not sure what the heresy is here, but > dump/restore can be sensitive to OS and OS version. > There are many that it cannot cross, but some it can. > The main thing is to check it before depending on it. I should add for clarity. So, the conflict would not be the different hardware but differences in OS and filesystem versions. Mostly I have been able to dump on one version of BSD and restore on another, apparently because the filesystems have been sufficiently similar. But, as I said before, Check it before you depend on it. ////jerry > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > m > > > > P.S. Please CC, I'm not subscribed. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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