Help converting to BSD
Ronald O. Christian
ronc at fai.UUCP
Thu Sep 4 11:09:26 AEST 1986
I have a problem: We've been running system V on a Vax 780
for over a year. There's about 300 Mbytes of user space
accumulated in that time. (Various utilities, applications,
and the usual junk.) We want to convert to BSD. I have
BSD installed on a spare disk pack, but am now faced with
the problem of bringing all the user stuff over. It's a
problem because I can't see where there is a common backup
utility shared between Sys V and BSD. (Except tar, which
is impractical for large amounts of data.) Sys V has 'volcopy'
and 'cpio' which aren't supported by BSD 4.2 and Berkeley has
'dump' which isn't supported on Sys V. I even entertained
the idea of using 'dd' but the file systems are not compatable.
Sigh. Any ideas? (Mail please, I'm a little behind in my
netnews.)
Ron
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