From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 23: 8:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD42A37B408 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A801E43EC5 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:08:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBA8cYp13792; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:38:36 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id CBCA51F3E; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:08:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:08:44 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Oliver Crow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump/Restore to disk and tape Message-ID: <20021210070844.GL67692@over-yonder.net> References: <20021209202500.D17508-100000@iguana.simplexity.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021209202500.D17508-100000@iguana.simplexity.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus: > > Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file > 'dump.0.2002-10-10'. > > Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of tapes, without having to > do the dump from the original filesystem? Have you tried symlinking dump.0.2002-10-10 to /dev/stdout, and then doing the | restore? Kinda a twisted way of doing it, but it may work. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message