Is dump different?

David Kirchner dpk at dpk.net
Tue Oct 18 10:58:08 PDT 2005


On 10/18/05, vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it> wrote:
> I have a new desktop with netbsd 2.0.2 and a portable with freebsd 5.4 (my pet
> OS but it didn't boot on the compaq evo 510 box; therefore netbsd!).
> Now, I had dumped my previous old desktop with **** freebsd 5.4 **** to a
> samba share and then tried to restore some files interactively with "restore
> -i -f mydumfile" ont the new box  but restore (under netbsd) complained that
> there was no root directory and i couldn't restore anything (e.g. ls didn't
> show anything).
> My question is:
> the dump programs in netbsd & in freebsd are different in some way, I mean
> structurally different therefore somewhat incompatible in the two OSs?

Quite likely. dump is different between FreeBSD 4 and FreeBSD 5, and
unfortunately there does not appear to be a "backwards compatibility
mode".


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