Thank you for the information :-)

Hm, I have trouble understanding *why* it has to be like this, but...
What does a person then do when this server crashes, and sees a golden
opportunity to install a new with a more uptodate operating system?
Files cannot be restored?

/kjell

Richard Sims wrote:

Most likely. That's the same kind of situation the previous customer
experienced, with different flavors of Linux. You're probably best off
restoring to a work area on the system which originated the backup, and
then transfer that data to the destination system.

   Richard Sims

"Linux is only free if your time has no value."   - Jamie Zawinsky

On Mar 12, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Kjell Kaspersen wrote:

fromserver:
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults
 1 2

toserver:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
/dev/md8                /home                   ext3    defaults
 1 2

Does this mean "all bets are off"? ;-)