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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Can I use QIC-80 tapes on both FreeBSD and Linux? Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:32:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <572sbi$moi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <56ite7$fjh@news.gvsu.edu> <56ssn9$e91@ns.qnis.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31454 comp.os.linux.misc:143287 phil@ns.qnis.net (Phil Jensen) wrote: > >I'm curious if I can back up something on my Linux machine at home onto a > >QIC-80 tape, and bring it to work and restore it onto our FreeBSD box. > I'm sure that if you used some sort of platform-independant method of > backing up, like dump(8) or tar(1), you shouldn't have a problem with reading > the tape from Linux, FreeBSD, or any other ... I'm not so sure about the interchangeability of the `ft' format. I'm sure you can't backup an ext2fs dump(8) tape using ufs restore(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)