From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 11:24:57 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00354 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:24:57 -0800 Received: from netcom10.netcom.com (root@netcom10.netcom.com [192.100.81.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00345 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:24:56 -0800 Received: by netcom10.netcom.com (8.6.11/Netcom) id KAA11109; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 10:01:16 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 10:01:16 -0800 From: pascal@netcom.com (Richard A Childers) Message-Id: <199503271801.KAA11109@netcom10.netcom.com> To: guido@IAEhv.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: question about dump Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "What happens when I do a level 0 dump on a system that is not in single user mode?" If the filesystem is reasonably quesient (sp?) then you won't have any problems at all ( with the possible exception of /tmp and /var files ). "More specifically: if files/directories get deleted after dump has made its dump table?" It will create a mildly inconsistent dump image but not an unusable dump image. ( Depends upon the directories and files you delete, of course. ) In any case, if you are restoring your 'root' filesystem from standalone mode ( and this is a topic I'd like to see discussed more - disaster recovery procedures for FreeBSD, the making of standalone diskettes and the like ) you'll be wantin' to fcsk it afterwards, to clear up any last bits of inconsistency and make the data structure ( if only for a few sweet minutes ) pristine, and untainted by the passage of data ... This is based upon administering thousands of BSD dumps over ten years of different sites, media, block sizes and densities ... have to note that there are some things about FreeBSd that are a little wierd ( like ft(1) ) that make behaviors a little hard to predict. ( Not that ft(1) doesn't do an excellent job ... just that it breaks the Unix paradigm, which dictates that devices should be accessible as files in the /dev directory, IE, /dev/rft0. ) -- richard Pontius Pilate was politically correct. So was Benedict Arnold. So was Vidkun Quisling ... and so was Adolph Hitler. |-: richard childers san francisco, california pascal@netcom.com