From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 9:13: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713E437B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bofh.teihal.gr (bofh.teihal.gr [195.130.65.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4CA43EAF for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from K.Oikonomakos@brad.ac.uk) Received: from shezan.bradford.uk (dsl-217-155-102-250.zen.co.uk [217.155.102.250]) by bofh.teihal.gr (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB1H6cLP050669; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:06:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from K.Oikonomakos@brad.ac.uk) Received: from shezan.bradford.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shezan.bradford.uk (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gB1HBMJs000564; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:11:22 GMT Received: (from kiriakos@localhost) by shezan.bradford.uk (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id gB1HBKLs000563; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:11:20 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: shezan.bradford.uk: kiriakos set sender to K.Oikonomakos@brad.ac.uk using -f Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:11:20 +0000 From: K.Oikonomakos@brad.ac.uk To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes Message-ID: <20021201171120.GA550@brad.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: K.Oikonomakos@brad.ac.uk, Conrad Sabatier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI > CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more > filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new /home > partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. > > I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from > backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. Well it is going to work as long as the directory structure is not changed. But you will have to be extra carefull with your permissions when you backup/restore your files. (what are you going to use for backup? dump/restore?) > > Thanks! > > -- > Conrad Sabatier > Kyriakos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message