Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backups & cloning Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909292128150.45380@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20090930051819.be26dc3b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4AC29BE6.4000505@videotron.ca> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909291759110.44648@wonkity.com> <4AC2B3BB.4080807@videotron.ca> <20090930040733.91cc32d4.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AC2C6FE.5030507@videotron.ca> <20090930051819.be26dc3b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: >> Duh.... I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was >> issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it >> from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from / as >> that is what I was trying to dump.... :-[ > > The working directory does only matter to the restore command. > The dump command just cares for the partition name. In order > to find out what partition corresponds with which subtree, > check /etc/fstab or run the > > # mount > /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) > /dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1g on /export/home (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > command, as in the example above. Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. It's built for that. If it's a live filesystem, add -L. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html#AEN25814 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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