On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:55:04 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-25 19:25:28 +1030, Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > >One other thing would be to make absolutely sure that your version of dump > > & restore are in sync, the are very machine/version dependent. > > Actually, they aren't - the archive format is very stable. (This is a > fairly important requirement - you don't want to suddenly be unable to > restore your backups after an upgrade). I can restore dumps made on > FreeBSD4.8/i386 and FreeBSD4.9/alpha on a FreeBSD-current/amd64 system > without problems.
Hmm interesting.. I must confess I haven't had problems recently but I tend to use tar these days anyway since it's more portable. > It's possible that you might have problems with a backup made using a > very recent dump on a very old restore if you've used filesystem > features that didn't exist when that restore was built. Could be, too long ago to remember :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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