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Date:      Mon, 12 May 2003 22:56:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20030512225212.S600@korben.in.tern>
In-Reply-To: <3EC005FF.2090600@tcoip.com.br>
References:  <20030512215835.V600@korben.in.tern> <20030512221444.R47986@cvs.imp.ch> <3EC00248.1040700@tcoip.com.br> <20030512222322.A600@korben.in.tern> <3EC005FF.2090600@tcoip.com.br>

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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> > The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with
> > mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump
> > source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it).
>
> Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have
> just greatly reduced the points of failure.

Please ignore my ignorance, but how can I dump(8) from a file?

regards,
le

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