Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:58:18 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Kevin Sanders <newroswell@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump restore pain and suffering Message-ID: <480C572A.6010407@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <375baf50804111751o5078081elc7ffe4a0e1feceae@mail.gmail.com> References: <375baf50804111751o5078081elc7ffe4a0e1feceae@mail.gmail.com>
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Kevin Sanders wrote: > 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 I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives, sometimes even through an ssh connection. The only thing you have to remember is to: chmod 1777 /tmp
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