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Subject: Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem --
	possible? -- SOLVED
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:25:32PM -0500, C Thala wrote:
> > 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?
> > Is this even possible?
> 
> Never mind...to answer my own question, I had to use the "add" feature
> in the interactive shell, i.e.:
> 
> $ restore -i -f dump
> restore > add etc
> restore > extract

If you want to test the *entire* dump file, you can also
use -r. Just make an empty directory somewhere, cd(1)
into it, and restore the dump there:

% mkdir /path/to/new/dir
% cd /path/to/new/dir
% restore -r -f /path/to/old/dumpfile

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