Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:01:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Tremayne Smith <tmane333@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Restoring from tape. Message-ID: <XFMail.000614080143.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20000613190308.28192.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 13-Jun-00 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. > With interactive restore (restore -i) you can make selections down to individual files. You can experiment by dump-ing a small partition (/var?) to a file and then restore -i that file. /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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