From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 23:18:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426A537B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B284D3830A6; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:18:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:18:39 -0500 From: Christopher Farley To: Jim Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: would this dump/restore scenario work? Message-ID: <20010605011837.B21121@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Jim Arnold , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jim@ohio.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:10:07AM -0400 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN 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 Jim Arnold (jim@ohio.com) wrote: > Here's my question: If I nuked the scsi drive, did a clean install of 4.3R from > the CD with the partitioning scheme noted above, and then did a restore from > the dump file, would that work? > > Would restore have a problem trying to lay the files back onto a system > that is not partitioned as the same from whence it came? Fortunately, I've done a lot more dumping than restoring. However, I believe you would run restore once for each new filesystem. Use restore in interactive mode and select only those parts of the dirctory tree that should be restored on the current filesystem. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message