Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:13:04 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resize freebsd slice Message-ID: <20100612161304.61df18f3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikmOG5cNKRqPQNflJ10HgPKxKiCbgn7ldHT3ure@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikmOG5cNKRqPQNflJ10HgPKxKiCbgn7ldHT3ure@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:32:17 +0300, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor@gmail.com> wrote: > i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. > > i followed your instructions but when i give > > "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: > > expected next file 188417,got 4 This *may* be okay, but it would be good if you would check the recent mailing list archives; as far as I remember, it has been discussed in detail (and with examples) about how to clone a system from one disk to another, also using dump + restore. > and the output of ls in the /mnt directory is: > .snap > restoresymtable > terietor I'm not sure what the third entry should be; can you provide "ls -laF /mnt/" and additionally check that your root.dump has a size corresponding to the occupation of the / partition the dump was taken from? Remeber: Only a working backup is a (good) backup. According to "man restore": Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored. Did you make a full or incremental dump? > what is going on? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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