ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) (09/04/86)
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 -- -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.) seismo!amdahl!fai!ronc -or- ihnp4!pesnta!fai!ronc Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: "If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."