Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
Thank you what should i do ? did i do it in the right way in order to run a dump to backup the whole system

Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
On 20/07/12 19:50, Mostafa Hashemi wrote: sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak

dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak / in order to run a dump to back up the whole

dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak

arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-18 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Andrei, Stan and Paul: Thanks for the replies. I was unaware that "/dev/disk/*" existed. I must have missed that lesson during the last upgrade. I appreciate your assistance. Regards from Calgary, Dean -- Dean Provins, P. Geoph. dprov...@a

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 4/17/2011 3:12 AM: > /dev/disk/by-id/ > /dev/disk/by-label/ # assuming you defined labels > /dev/disk/by-path/ > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ > > I prefer labels since they can be set to something meaningful/mnemonic. Yes, I use labels for partitions as well, more for organizat

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110417_111214, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 16 apr 11, 15:00:39, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > > > This means that I must NOT rely on my automatic (crontab-based) dump > > scripts, but interrogate the system manually, and if necessary, alter > > /var/lib/dumpdates so that the scr

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 16 apr 11, 15:00:39, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > This means that I must NOT rely on my automatic (crontab-based) dump > scripts, but interrogate the system manually, and if necessary, alter > /var/lib/dumpdates so that the script will run properly. No, just adapt your script t

arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-16 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello I have used "dump" and "restore" to perform system backups for many years. Since upgrading to Debian 6.x, I have not been able to obtain consistent and reliable dumps for the following reason: Sometimes. my single fixed disk is labeled as /dev/sda, but At other times, it is labeled

Not regenerating the full path with dump/restore

2004-10-13 Thread Andrei Badea
Hi all, my Debian installation contains all the files (/home, /usr and everything) in one single root partition. I want to move the contents of my /home directory to another partition. I couldn't just use cp because user directories contain links. So I thought dump and restore would help: dump

Re: dump & restore

1998-07-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the scoop. Dump wants to know how much capacity the tape has. Traditionally this information was given to dump by passing it the density *and* length. Linux dump allows you to specify the tape capacity in bytes with the 'B' option. Apparently some very old tape systems could not detect th

Re: dump & restore

1998-07-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm trying to learn how dump and restore utilities work and I'm >having not much success. I could do a dump of a filesystem using the line >dump 0udf 61000 /dev/nst0 /tmp2, where 61000 is the density of my tape. > If I do only this,

dump & restore

1998-07-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to learn how dump and restore utilities work and I'm having not much success. I could do a dump of a filesystem using the line dump 0udf 61000 /dev/nst0 /tmp2, where 61000 is the density of my tape. If I do only this, I can restore /tmp2 without problems.

HELP! w/ dump & restore

1998-02-13 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [

Dump & restore

1998-02-05 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [