From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:justin.bleistein AT SUNGARD DOT COM] 
> that is true you can restore one unix server to another. It's not the
> different type of operating systems that restrict this it's 
> the different
> type of filesystems. The filesystems are so different between 
> Windows/dos and Unix it just won't work. thanks!.

This comment was obviously not made by someone who has tried to restore
a Solaris filesystem to AIX, or a Linux ext3 filesystem to HP-UX.

My experience has been that you've got stay with the same OS, and, in a
few cases, not too much difference between the versions of said OS. (You
can't restore a Windows' FAT filesystem to an NTFS-formatted box.)
 
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