From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 23: 2: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9099437C0D2 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:02:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e5E61xx25106; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:01:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000613190308.28192.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:01:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Tremayne Smith Subject: RE: Restoring from tape. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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