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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Help converting to BSD
Message-ID: <336@fai.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 21:09:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: fai.336
Posted: Wed Sep  3 21:09:26 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 22:19:12 EDT
Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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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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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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