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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