Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:53:38 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Szymanski <ski@indymedia.org> Subject: Re: dump/restore with ufs2 Message-ID: <20041230205338.GA98783@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041230175425.GF50770@submonkey.net> References: <1816.10.0.0.120.1104258230.squirrel@10.0.0.120> <20041230175425.GF50770@submonkey.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:54:25PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > > When I run the following script, I get a warning message, and I'm > > wondering if it's ignorable or indicates there is a little more work to be > > done in getting dump/restore happy with ufs2... > > > > $ cd /altroot > > $ dump -L -0 -a -f - /dev/$ROOT | restore -rf - > > ... > > warning: ./.snap: File exists > > > > Does this mean my snapshots are being overwritten on the target disk? And > > if so, that's a good thing, right? > > That's just a warning that .snap already exists in the current directory > (which is because it gets created by newfs); the contents will remain > unaffected since snapshots are not dumped (I believe). A snapshot _is_ what is being dumped when you use the -L option to dump. See the manual page. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB1GrSEnfvsMMhpyURAmZxAJ4nUC4RsRT60uUvJnZ9enheoo6twACeLp3y pCCsZvc8AmYUdMJxPRhW5Ds= =i6g1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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