Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-03 Thread Andrew Daugherity
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:40 AM, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-03 Thread Gene
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Janjaap van Velthooven janj...@stack.nl wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk,

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread Janjaap van Velthooven
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread etienne
On 2015-03-01 17:38, Kenneth Gober wrote: FAT (and FAT32) would probably involve less experimentation. to bypass the limitations of FAT, I recommend using tar(1) and split(1). tar cfC - /filesystem-to-back-up . | split -b 2000m that will produce a tar file split into 2GB chunks named

File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread etienne
Hello there, Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried with FFS, it didn't work. Cheers, -- Étienne

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2015-03-01 11:40, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote: Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried with FFS, it didn't work.

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread Zeljko Jovanovic
On 01.03.2015. 17:55, Josh Grosse wrote: You might experiment with ext2fs. IIRC, FAT has two strikes against it: owner/mode, and 4GB individual filesize limit. NTFS (built-in, or FUSE) has its own owner/mode translation issues, such that you would liely want to archive files as intermediate

Re: File transfer from NetBSD to OpenBSD

2015-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gober
FAT (and FAT32) would probably involve less experimentation. to bypass the limitations of FAT, I recommend using tar(1) and split(1). tar cfC - /filesystem-to-back-up . | split -b 2000m that will produce a tar file split into 2GB chunks named xaa, xab, xac, etc. to restore: cat x?? |