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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:16:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        C Thala <cthala@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible?
Message-ID:  <20080129101610.J1895@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <77647f500801281518h4bfd02f2xcde2c319e2173b99@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <77647f500801281518h4bfd02f2xcde2c319e2173b99@mail.gmail.com>

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> On a 6.2 system, I am making some backups using dump(1)
>
> I would like to test the integrity of these dumpfiles by using
> restore(1) to restore them.
>
> However, I don't have an actual live filesystem available to test this
> on....can I just restore to a directory on an existing fs to be sure?

of course. only dump requires raw filesystem, restore operates on files 
only



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