From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 07:05:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AE89C16A4E2 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D8B43D58 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:05:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.63 #0 (FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE)) id 1GEKtM-0006dJ-1w by authid ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:05:12 +0300 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:05:12 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Malcolm Kay Message-ID: <20060819070512.GA95638@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Malcolm Kay , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060817155121.GA93194@ns2.wananchi.com> <200608191328.45959.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608191328.45959.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message, where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.12 (2006-07-14) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:05:16 -0000 * On 19/08/06 13:28 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: | On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I believe that this might be possible.. | > | > I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a | > remote host: | > | > dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz' | > | > Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. | > | > Two questions: | > | > 1. How can I mount this snapshot and access its contents? | | # zcat snapshot.gz | restore -i -f - | See the restore(8) man page. Thanks for this. I did read the restore man page, but I missed the point. I'll stop working late into the night! | > 2. How can I use this snapshot to create another system (a | > clone)? | This question leaves me wondering whether you realise that dump | only backsup a single partition. From your dump you can only | clone the root partition which usually is quite small and does | not on its own lead to a useful system. I know that fact. I needed to have clarified that this dump is actually the "whole system, all partitions". In this particular case, the disk is divided into two, swap (2.5xRAM) and / only. | Anyway to restore this you need to create a suitable partition, | initialise it with newfs, mount the partition, cd into the | partition and then run restore -r. Again look at the restore(8) | man page. Oops... putting on my worn out boots and running to restore(8). Thank you very very much. My actual problem was that I read too much of the dump(8), until I simply got dumped ;) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Laptrust Plaza, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day...