3 Nov
2018
3 Nov
'18
1:17 p.m.
On Nov 3, 2018, at 06:26, Pete Biggs pete@biggs.org.uk wrote: I don't think dump has changed anything in 20 years or so! And I certainly can't see it changing such that it can't read old files - that is, sort of, it's raison d'etre.
A bit off topic but...
Funny story, at a previous job, my boss was able to extract the data off tapes made in the 80s on tops-20 systems (iirc) with the version of restore on FreeBSD, but couldn’t get the tape drive to work on anything but Linux, so he had to extract the tapes on a RHL system then copy them to FreeBSD to read into the restore program. He actually was able to find the data he was looking for.
-- Jonathan Billings