From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 16: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7B8437B40F for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36925 invoked by uid 100); 15 Oct 2001 22:58:18 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15307.27146.459481.800300@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:58:18 -0500 To: "Jud Fink" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump/Restore Question In-Reply-To: <11097504@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Jud Fink types: > My understanding/experience of FreeBSD is limited. I've never done > dump/restore before, and I don't understand this from the restore man page: > > "A level zero dump must be done after a full restore. Because restore runs > in user code, it has no control over inode allocation; thus a full dump must > be done to get a new set of directories reflecting the new inode numbering, > even though the contents of the files is unchanged." What this means is that partial dumps done after the full restore will be screwed up. Whether other backup tools will be screwed up depend on the tool, but I suspect the answer is yes for all of them, as it's really hard to do backups properly without worrying about inode numbers. > Should I run another dump after restoring to the main HD? Dump from where > to where? You should pretend that you no longer have valid backups, and make complete backups just like you would under those conditions. If you don't make backups, then don't worry about it, just keep on worrying about disk failures. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message