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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 22:47:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org>
Cc:        Peter Kok <cckok00@hotmail.com>, Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: simple back up method
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105182246250.18536-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <001b01c0e00b$10785ec0$0300a8c0@oracle>

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RULE 1 of keeping alive in the computer industry:

NEVER TRUST A BACKUP METHOD TILL YOU HAVE TESTED THE RESTORE!

I learned that the hard way - its one of the reasons I dont have a lot of
hair left :)

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Doug Young wrote:

> > How do I restore the backup from dump?
> > 
> Some people ask the weirdest things :)
> 
> At a guess maybe the "restore" command might do it,
> but never having got that far I really can't say for certain
> what the correct syntax might be
> 
> 


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