On 2009-Mar-25 19:25:28 +1030, Daniel O'Connor <docon...@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >One other thing would be to make absolutely sure that your version of dump & >restore are in sync, the are very machine/version dependent.
Actually, they aren't - the archive format is very stable. (This is a fairly important requirement - you don't want to suddenly be unable to restore your backups after an upgrade). I can restore dumps made on FreeBSD4.8/i386 and FreeBSD4.9/alpha on a FreeBSD-current/amd64 system without problems. It's possible that you might have problems with a backup made using a very recent dump on a very old restore if you've used filesystem features that didn't exist when that restore was built. -- Peter Jeremy
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