Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:58:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@xmission.com> Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies Message-ID: <8763pgnkli.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080901023941.P20716@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (Wojciech Puchar's message of "Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 %2B0200 (CEST)") References: <48BB2359.4000208@xmission.com> <871w04rbg5.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20080901023941.P20716@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be >> changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to >> cause trouble later on. > > but shouldn't make NO files restored, maybe few files that was changed > while backing up. Yes that's true of course. I was merely replying to the obvious error. Failing to restore *any* files is a different issue.
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