From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 08:50:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2481E106576B for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:50:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7098FC18 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:50:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E3A3B28419; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:34:34 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:34:34 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Daniels Vanags Message-ID: <20090409083434.GA81335@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump/Restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:50:55 -0000 On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:50:49AM +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: > Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is > empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore > devfs. These are pseudo file systems, and are dynamically managed by the system. You aren't expected to back them up. If you're system failed to boot, how did you inspect the filesystem? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.