---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:35:47 -0500 >From: Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: restore question: is my dump hosed? >To: [email protected] > >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 > $ > >
damian, thx for the info, i'll reinstall freebsd on a machine to check the dumps there. i suspect the answer is no, but could i restore a UFS2 dump on a UFS2 filesystem using openbsd (avoiding the reinstall of freebsd)? cheers, jake
