Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:11:48 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com> To: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org> Cc: Scott Mitchell <scott@uk.freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <20011107100937.B44499-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3BE97532.4090007@froekjaer.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >As the subject says, I'm trying to backup the contents of a large RAID array > >on a Debian Linux machine and restore it onto an even larger RAID on a > >FreeBSD box. I figured something like this would do the job: > > > I can't find it right now, but I'm sure that you can't use dump/restore > to move files between Linux and FreeBSD. > dump works on file systems, not files, and the file system is different > on the 2 OS. > > \Flemming It works okay in this case because you're running the original dump on FreeBSD. restore knows how to read the dump either way (it's standard 4.4BSD restore). The only thing that is a problem, I think, is the ffs extended flags. I don't know if dump supports them, but I'm sure that restore on Linux does not. (However, if you ran the restore process on the FreeBSD box this may avoid the problem). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011107100937.B44499-100000>