> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM] 
> Sent: woensdag 23 april 2003 19:49
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Restoring UNIX filesystems
> 
> 
> 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.)

That is true, but you can create a new filesystem on the box that is FAT
and then restore your stuff.

As for Linux, it understands much filesystems, so you could do the same
trick there.

>  
> --
> Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
> Berbee Information Networks
> Office 262.521.5627
> 
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