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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!hurley From: hurley@REGULUS.LCS.MIT.EDU (Ed Hurley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: restoring dumps made under BSD 2.8 filesystem Date: 16 Jul 1994 22:28:31 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <309muf$hp3@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: regulus.lcs.mit.edu Originator: hurley@REGULUS.LCS.MIT.EDU hi, i have a bunch of 1/2" tapes (9-track) which were "dump"'d from an 11/70. i'd like to transfer them to 8mm, but restore doesn't recognize the format. i believe this is because the 11/70 was running the BSD 2.8 filesystem, and the inode (and maybe directory) information was different. if anyone has dealt with this problem before can you: 1) give me further info/advice 2) provide/point to a program for restoring 2.8 filesystems? thanks for any help you can provide, ed