Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:38:36 -0700 From: Gregory Carvalho <GregoryC@stcinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with tar Message-ID: <376C461C.4A4B8C28@stcinc.com>
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/root, /bin, /sbin and the other root directorys are not restoring when tar -xvz is issued:( Two objectives for the restore: test a disaster recovery scenario, expand partition sizes. First I used dd to overwrite the beginning of the 18GB drive (which had FreeBSD 3.1 Release). I then used the FreeBSD 3.1 Release CDROM to load FreeBSD. I used Novice, and configured very little (partitions and mouse). The following entry in crontab was used to backup on DDS3 DAT for a couple of weeks prior to using dd: 30 2 * * 2-6 root /usr/bin/tar -cvz / The mail generated by the backup appeared good (although I am uncertain whether /root or the others were in the list). I tried to use tar -xvpz from /, but the root dirs did not get restored. tar -tvz displays entries from: /dev, /stand, /etc. It does not show those mentioned above. In addition I installed WordPerfect 8 for Linux, which created a dir named /wpmacros. The directory definetly was listed in the mail results from cron. /wpmacros was not restored nor listed in -tvz. I am soliciting suggestions on how to restore the dirs. If it is not possible with the create command I issued, then please let me know the command. If the command I need to issue is something I have not mentioned here to extract the dirs, please let me know what the command is. TIA, Greg Carvalho GregoryC@stcinc.com Simplified Technology Company http://www.stcinc.com In God I Trust! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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