From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 15:51:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3713037B403 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f86MpK181162; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:51:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: ex279@hotmail.com ("Todd Reed") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump and Restore Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 5 Sep 2001 16:14:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >When I dump my files to a tape, I use the following method: > >dump -0 -a -f /dev/nrsa0 -n -u /tmp; \ >dump -0 -a -f /dev/nrsa0 -n -u /usr; \ >dump -0 -a -f /dev/nrsa0 -n -u /var; \ >dump -0 -a -f /dev/nrsa0 -n -u /mnt/vdrv > >It runs all the dumps and appears to back everything up. However, when = I do > >restore -i > >and look at the tape, I see only the last file system that was dumped. Are you using mt to fsf to the correct set ? e.g. mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind mt -f /dev/nrsa0 fsf 1 restore -i -f /dev/nrsa0 should show you /usr ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message