Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:15:56 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: michaela <michaela@mail.maa-net.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump/Restore Message-ID: <200312140915.56759.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200312131634.hBDGYs5u025346@mail.maa-net.net> References: <200312131634.hBDGYs5u025346@mail.maa-net.net>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:04, michaela wrote: > 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 ju= st > 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 t= he > "/" filesystem. > > I know when I did a dump of four filesystems /usr/home was the ver= y > last filesystem I dumped so I know it had to be on the tape. I used th= e > "n" for the device file 'sa0' so the tape would remain where it is afte= r > dumping each filesystem, as opposed to rewinding and the overwriting an= y > previous dump. > Sounds as though you have restored from the first file on tape. The dumps= are not identified on tape so whatever dump file is found is restored to the=20 current location. > 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. > I take it that you issued the command: mt -f /dev/sa0 fsf 3 prior to attempting to restore. You might try instead: mt -f /dev/nsa0 fsf 3 Malcolm
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