Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Tremayne Smith <tmane333@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restoring from tape. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006131212310.13057-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20000613190308.28192.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Here is a great URL for learning the basics of dump. http://www.execpc.com/~hamiltj/docs/dump.html You do have to dump full file systems but you can restore individual files or directories from that file system dump. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> ================================= On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tremayne Smith wrote: > Hey All, > > I was hoping that someone would be able to give me a good resource for > information about restoring from tape. I have found and read that I can > only backup filesystems using dump(8) and not merely specific directories, > and I was curious to know if this applied to restoring from tape. Is it > necessary to restore the entire filesystem or can I simply restore a > specific directory? If anyone has any information for me please share. > Thanx in advance. > > Tre' > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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