From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 01:19:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5871065682 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from newroswell@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E9A8FC21 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from newroswell@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so607587waf.3 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:19:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=haJADbngNCVOwzW+AQQIa6FPpNccGS4lk7yCd8VJOck=; b=shGhJrrcnwZJneYTisivXnzM6CA01avG/fEg3S+NIh8GXu7QFJAwVbBospdIScZEcq6fZvtBDbpO5vTR9k+N382IwvcD55KA9XUnXV8F4CFpV1KSiuyJ0QMH9xnGbhdXIqkyQCnmmn5bmBtI+OH3jqF71M8ffX+qvMQ2WOMdXtU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PSTs1gfWNNo45pcND4qXIrSJzJiHIGuletcOoVVlJznKgF89ycaQkH5Xffz0IZRHttd4YxQQuoxuwbv6OSY6PB/XTtTAySjKJR59Wpn27bNzV7WyNN1t+16OEkxA15wiJ+OWEA3oOuFvnTAZ3h2eJtm5AJOPe7dfM+b1nsOnFow= Received: by 10.115.59.2 with SMTP id m2mr980066wak.197.1207961481346; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.205.10 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <375baf50804111751o5078081elc7ffe4a0e1feceae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:51:21 -0700 From: "Kevin Sanders" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: dump restore pain and suffering 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, 12 Apr 2008 01:19:58 -0000 I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf /mnt/test.root.dump. /mnt is a ufs formated usb drive. After the dump, I've even done a restore -rNf /mnt/test.root.dump just to make sure it doesn't complain out the dump file. I've read the handbook, found a few articles, googled all the errors. The header dumpdate thing is harmless, the expected next file is from it being a live system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is very usable. Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes less than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real systems are not really backed up. I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting water. Kevin