From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 18:23:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02ACF37BFC3 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pnmurphy@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.42.55.28]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000614012352.DMVA416.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@home.com> for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:23:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3946DEA0.F13F613A@home.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:23:44 -0400 From: Paul Murphy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restoring from tape. References: <20000613190308.28192.qmail@hotmail.com> <8i69da$2f4p$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Tremayne Smith wrote: > > > 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. > > You might want to start out by reading the restore(8) man page. And take a look at tar(1) too. -- Paul Murphy http://members.home.com/pnmurphy/ Home Lat: 43° 33' 29" N, Lon: 79° 39' 03" W Work Lat: 43° 25' 30" N, Lon: 79° 42' 34" W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message