From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 12:18:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392E437C059 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13144; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:13:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Tremayne Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restoring from tape. In-Reply-To: <20000613190308.28192.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ================================= 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