From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 3:35:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D35C137B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 03:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 8000 invoked by uid 100); 19 May 2001 10:35:34 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15110.19574.298177.766018@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 05:35:34 -0500 To: Stephen Hovey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple back up method In-Reply-To: <93200829@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Stephen Hovey types: > I thought dump was all or nothing - whereas I often need just some files > and the flexability of having them restore to a different place, or to > have everything BUT whats already there restore. dump is for entire file systems. Is isn't "all or nothing", as it can do incrementals, and files can be set to not be dumped. You can extract specific files from a dump tape - or all of them - to any location you want. Doing a "restore", in the sense of recreating a file system as it existed at the time of a specific dump, requires a clean file system. I normally recovering single files by extracting them into a scratch directory and then putting them where I want them. Generating a list of "what's not already there" from the dump tape TOC is relatively simple. On the other hand, archiving a few files isn't really a backup system type task. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message