Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:50:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@xmission.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies Message-ID: <871w04rbg5.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <48BB2359.4000208@xmission.com> (Lloyd M. Caldwell's message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600") References: <48BB2359.4000208@xmission.com>
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@xmission.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
>
> Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
> would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have
> information that doesn't work.
>
> I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single
> user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive the
> backup image. I ran:
>
> dump -0af /mnt/d201gly-0.dump /
>
> it ran with no complaints and an image was left on the large usb file
> system (d201gly-0.dump).
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be
changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to
cause trouble later on.
> I then booted off the livefs cdrom, went to the "Fix-it" from livefs.
>
> I ran fdisk to setup a pc partition for freebsd owning the entire disk.
> I ran disklabel to setup and define the swap and 'a' root partition.
> I ran disklabel to install boot blocks.
> I ran newfs on this new 'a' partition.
> I ran fsck and mount on the new 'a' partition placing it at /mnt/root.
> I turned on the large usb drive, fsck'ed it and mounted it on /mnt/restore.
> I cd into /mnt/root and run:
>
> restore -rf /mnt/restore/d201gly-0.dump
>
> it complains about '/' issues
> it complains about 'expecting YYYYYY got ZZZZZZ'
The manpage of restore says:
expected next file <inumber>, got <inumber>
A file that was not listed in the directory showed
up. This can occur when using a dump created on an
active file system.
If this is the error you are seeing, then this is the explanation of
what went wrong too.
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