multi-platform dump and restore?

[Mark B.]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> If I dump on amd64 should I be able to
>> extract files from the dump on i386?
>
> i'm almost sure yes but please check
>

I did and it does.

>>
>> If so, should it be possible to restore a
>> FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386?
>
> probably not.
>

You are correct.

    # gunzip -c var_www_log.1214712054.1.dmp.gz | restore -i -f -
    . is not on the tape
    Root directory is not on tape
    abort? [yn] y
    dump core? [yn] n
    # uname -a
    OpenBSD dev.example.com 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386

How did you guess?

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