Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:34:54 -0500 (EST) From: michaela <michaela@mail.maa-net.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dump/Restore Message-ID: <200312131634.hBDGYs5u025346@mail.maa-net.net>
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Hi there, I had a question regarding Dump/Restore. I just had to reinstall FreeBSD completely because of a problem, and now I wanted to RESTORE just the filesystem '/usr/home'. Well, I went into '/usr/home', then tried "restore -rf /dev/sa0" to restore it. When it's done all there is is the "/" filesystem. I know when I did a dump of four filesystems /usr/home was the very last filesystem I dumped so I know it had to be on the tape. I used the "n" for the device file 'sa0' so the tape would remain where it is after dumping each filesystem, as opposed to rewinding and the overwriting any previous dump. I know there has to be more filesystems on the tape besides "/" because when I did a "mt -f /dev/sa0 fsf 3" to skip three filesystems forward to the "/usr/home" filesystem, I didn't get any errors looking for it. So I know it has to be on the tape. Can you offer any suggestions, help, or what have you?? I'm really stumped by this and I'm panicking because I may've lost all my valuable data. I'm using a SCSI tape drive to backup data. Thanks for your time! :)
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