On 8/18/05, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I shall be transporting a hard disk between two sites for backup > purposes. The backup shall be on a RAID-1 mirror in an openbsd server. > The disk will primarily be used in a sun workstation running solaris.
As others have pointed out, use a tarball on a vfat filesystem. You might want to doublecheck the capabilities of the various tar utilties, and perhaps use gtar (GNU Tar) on both ends. Otherwise, OpenBSD has r/w support for ext2, and I believe there's a module for Solaris to support ext2. Third alternative would be to use a small NAS device or PC (miniitx/laptop) instead of a vanilla harddrive and use a network filesystem to r/w the backup. -- ach
