On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:35:47AM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Thus spake Joachim Schipper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/03/06 00:34]:
> : Provided that you didn't do something strange when copying the dump, it
> : should - at least - be restorable on something that closely resembles
> : the platform it was taken on (FreeBSD-6.x).
>
> I believe the default FS type in FreeBSD 6.x (and even in 5.x) is UFS2.
> Which, as I understand it, only has the beginnings of a framework being
> developed for OpenBSD. And no, you can't restore a UFS2 dump on a UFS
> filesystem:
>
> $ restore -ivf root.ufs2.dmp
> Verify tape and initialize maps
> Tape block size is 32
> restore: Tape is not a dump tape
> $
Not to be a prick, but that's pretty much what I pointed out in the
paragraph you snipped. ;-)
Also see undeadly.org for a writeup about UFS2.
Joachim
