From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 08:36:55 2003 Return-Path: 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 6EE4216A517 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:36:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.maa-net.net (h00095b009f6b.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.128.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8089643DA9 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:34:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaela@mail.maa-net.net) Received: from mail.maa-net.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.maa-net.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBDGYshU025347 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:34:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from michaela@mail.maa-net.net) Received: (from michaela@localhost) by mail.maa-net.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id hBDGYs5u025346 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:34:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:34:54 -0500 (EST) From: michaela Message-Id: <200312131634.hBDGYs5u025346@mail.maa-net.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dump/Restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:36:55 -0000 Hi there, I had a question regarding Dump/Restore. I just had to reinstall FreeBSD completely because of a problem, and now I wanted to RESTORE just the filesystem '/usr/home'. Well, I went into '/usr/home', then tried "restore -rf /dev/sa0" to restore it. When it's done all there is is the "/" filesystem. I know when I did a dump of four filesystems /usr/home was the very last filesystem I dumped so I know it had to be on the tape. I used the "n" for the device file 'sa0' so the tape would remain where it is after dumping each filesystem, as opposed to rewinding and the overwriting any previous dump. I know there has to be more filesystems on the tape besides "/" because when I did a "mt -f /dev/sa0 fsf 3" to skip three filesystems forward to the "/usr/home" filesystem, I didn't get any errors looking for it. So I know it has to be on the tape. Can you offer any suggestions, help, or what have you?? I'm really stumped by this and I'm panicking because I may've lost all my valuable data. I'm using a SCSI tape drive to backup data. Thanks for your time! :)