Subject: Re: dump and restore on the alpha port
To: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@nhh.no>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/30/1996 13:46:03
I said:
> I said:
> > However, on the _alpha_ i can't restore the dump image with the same
> > procedure...  (it seg-faults...)
> 
> Ahh, that was because i was trying to run the 'restore' process on an
> NFS file system...  I figured, if all you want is to get a few files
> back...  (there is much more lossage in dump and restore than i had
> previously believed.  8-)

So, after a bit of working tracking it down (it was trashing the
stack...), i've fixed this, FYI.


> I've not tried creating a dump on the i386 and extracting it on the
> alpha, yet.

I tried this, too, and it worked fine.



chris