On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:40:49PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> The restore program of freebsd can't read the dumps made by my linux 
> client. Google archives seems to say that this comes the filesystems : 
> ext2 on linux vs ufs on freebsd.

This is correct.  FWIW, gnutar dumps don't suffer this problem.  Unless
atimes are somehow important to your application, I recommend that just
about everyone use gnutar these days, especially in a heterogenous
environment where you can't always count on the platform you made the
dump on being available at restore time.

> The solution :
[snip]
> Any comments welcome.

You are aware you can run amrecover remotely, aren't you?

HTH,

Brandon D. Valentine
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