From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 14 8:11:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA68F37B406 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.228.229]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:51:35 -0400 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6E2oul01272 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:50:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:50:56 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: restore -f: How? Message-ID: <20010713225056.A1248@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I backed up a large partition with: dump -B 665902 -0uf ${BASE}.1,${BASE}.2,${BASE}.3,${BASE}.4,${BASE}.5 /data Now, how do I restore it? restore's "-f" doesn't take a file list like dump's, and when I "restore -t" pointing it at the first file, it doesn't seem to care whether files 2, 3, ... are even there. It also doesn't like it if I point it to one of the volumes besides .1 (the first). Should I just cat all these volume files together and pipe that into restore? There must be a trick but I don't find it documented. TIA for any advice, Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message