From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Extracting files from various old dump/restore tapes
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:56:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrLUYUsoPDcns9qxH-MwwWW1Apa6aZR25AD3SQg2mthig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9CB31023-9485-4BE8-9B1F-2A6165044BE4@iitbombay.org>
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:53 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2022, at 9:27 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD deleted some compat code in the kernel some time ago, and it
> turns
> > out that restore used that to read old dump tapes, so we broke old dump
> tapes.
> > So you can't use FreeBSD's unmodified.
>
> May be run an older release that has this code?
>
That only works if the dinode structures line up exactly to whatever these
tapes
are from. The 16-bit ones likely need to use the V7 restore (maybe running
in
emulation in simh), the 32-bit ones might be able to use V32 or 4BSD
running in
emulation, if that's what the tapes are from. But the multi-endian
suggests that
maybe things are more complex than that.
FreeBSD's restore from older releases might work, but only for the 32-bit
stuff and
only if we're lucky...
Warner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-22 15:35 [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2022-08-22 16:27 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-08-22 16:53 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-22 16:56 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2022-08-23 5:55 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-08-23 13:02 ` Warner Losh
2022-09-09 5:51 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-09-14 17:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-09-14 21:33 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2022-09-15 5:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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