Are Dump Files Transportable?
David J. Camp
david at wubios.wustl.edu
Sat Jun 3 03:52:31 AEST 1989
Hello. I am using a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.01. I want to know
something about the dump command. If I were to copy the dump file off
of a tape (with dd for instance), could I then restore from that file
using restore? Is there any problem with transferring that file to a
foreign system for long term storage on incompatible tapes? Is there
any special trick to restoring multiple tape dumps, e.g. is 'cat' good
enough to recombine them into a restoreable file?
Thank you for your interest, and please reply directly to me. -David-
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