begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:36:09AM -0800: > Chris Louden wrote: > >I'll look into Mondo, we may be able to adapt it to our needs. Let me > >explain at little more about what were doing and the need. > > I'm ticked off with Mondo at the moment. A couple years ago they changed > their archive format. I have some archives made from JUST before that > time that I would like to restore but cannot. The new versions are not > backwards compatible and the old versions won't build on my new machine > or something. It's a bit of a catch 22. I'm hoping the current copy of > the data I am working with is a true copy but I wanted to compare it > with the restored version to be sure. That project is on the back burner > at the moment.
Perhaps a virtual machine and an old OS w/o networking access? -- File formats require more thought than algorithms, and should change less. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
