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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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In-Reply-To: <20080901023941.P20716@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (Wojciech
	Puchar's message of "Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST)")
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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies
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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.