BSD Dump Utility in ubuntu

Nicolas KOWALSKI niko at petole.demisel.net
Thu Jan 29 20:44:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:54:49AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I am needing to backup a mixed Unix environment
> consisting of ubuntu, Redhat Debian and Freebsd systems to a
> FreeBSD platform. All BSD Unix systems have the dump and restore
> utility. There is a Linux version of dump for Debian. Are there
> any unusual issues with ubuntu that will prevent dump from
> safely working other than the possibility of getting a corrupt
> backup if one reads an active file system?

If you compare the versions in Debian and in Ubuntu, they are almost the 
same, so the one in Ubuntu should work as well:

http://packages.debian.org/etch/dump

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/dump

-- 
Nicolas




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