On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Louis Guillaume wrote:

> Does anyone know of a pkgsrc package that delivers dump and restore? I'm
> basically looking for what is in the NetBSD distribution so I can use
> these on OS X, Linux and AIX where I've found these programs to behave
> inconsistently.

I don't think anything that provides a generic dump/restore is available.

dump/restore is file system specific.

A 1995 Linux port to ext2fs (Linux filesystem) from a very old BSD UFS
version is at ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs/
(dump-0.3.tar.gz).

An updated and maintained version for Linux ext2 filesystems is at
http://dump.sourceforge.net/

dump/restore is available from Darwin OS and should work for Mac OS X. (I
don't know where to retrieve at though.)

I don't know of any open source dump/restore that builds under AIX and
supports AIX's native file system(s).

Maybe the http://dump.sourceforge.net/ project has or will consider
including UFS (NetBSD and so on) support.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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