s m <sam.gh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore > this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my > file system) but do not know how to do that. > > is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an > encrypted file system? i tried to restore my dump file as when file > system is unencrypted.
Can you read the files after attaching the provider manually? > this is what i've doe: I decrypted my encrypted file system by "geli > attach" command, then mount it and restore dumps. but when i restart > my system, FreeBSD doesn't start up correctly (PXE boot menu is shown > and when i select freeBSD, boot.config runs but nothing happend). You do not provide enough information to give a meaningful answer. One possible mistake would be putting the kernel itself on the encrypted file system, but the list of things one can do wrong is pretty long. Fabian
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