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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!sn.no!hermod.uio.no!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: dump archives and restore Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:52:07 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5b3b87$ajb@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bbfdbf$ca940620$2bfbcea0@kahedy.hansen.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5560 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33895 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1891 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5139 "Edy Gasparini" <edy.gasparini@hancorp.com.au> wrote: > I've got BSD/OS 2.1 (on a Pentium) and would like to include this host as > part of my backup routines. However, even though I can send the dump to a > remote tape drive and dump successfully completes, I cannot seem to be able > to read the resultant archive on the remote host. Dumps are inherently architecture and system dependant. > Note: doing byte swapping Well, restore does already the best it can do, and tries to interpret the dump as being byte-swapped. However, the UFS formats of 4.4BSD and SunOS (in this case) diverged too much from each other, so it's impossible to read the dump back there. Other systems without BSD FFS (like HPUX) are even worse. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j