Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Cross-architecture tape backward compatabiltiy

2008-06-24 05:03:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Cross-architecture tape backward compatabiltiy
From: James Cort <james.cort AT u4eatech DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:03:17 +0100
Frank Sweetser wrote:
> According to the bacula developer's manual at
> 
> http://bacula.org/en/developers/Storage_Media_Output_Format.html#SECTION000115000000000000000
> 
> "All Block Headers, Record Headers, and Label Records are written using
> Bacula's serialization routines. These routines guarantee that the data is
> written to the output volume in a machine independent format."

Looks like I'll be fine on an x86 - amd64 move, but I'd be stuck if I 
was moving to a machine on which char wasn't 8 bits:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/intrinsic-types.html#faq-26.4


Though to be fair, that's pretty unlikely.

-- 
James Cort

IT Manager
U4EA Technologies Ltd.

-- 
U4EA Technologies
http://www.u4eatech.com


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