4.x can't read 5.x dump?

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Dec 1 18:24:59 PST 2004


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:19, freebsd-stable at auscert.org.au wrote:
> I can scp the file back to the 5.x machine and it loads just fine, so what
> gives? This type of failure is somewhat scary for me right now, given that
> I may have to restore files to another destination that may not be 5.x
> based.

Is the 5.x dump a UFS 1 or 2 FS?

If it's 2 then it's not really suprising since 4.x can't read it.

You could quite proabably recompile restore with some kludgy support for UFS2 
though.

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