Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. My question is: will dump / (root) make a dump of *ALL* other directories? Dump

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread dick
Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. My question is: will dump / (root) make a

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread George Kontostanos
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread William Brown
On 07/02/2012, at 22:25, dick wrote: Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine.

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, dick wrote: Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. My

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-30 Thread John Levine
# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 2G206M1.6G11%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M3.6G 0%/tmp /dev/ad4s1f 40G 25G 12G67%/usr /dev/ad4s1d 31G

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 9/29/11 10:09 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a

Re: dump/restore, how to reduce slice size

2011-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:36:38PM +0300, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 2G206M1.6G11%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e3.9G 13M3.6G

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:33:47 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: I have seen this posted in the questions archives to be used to clone a active system hard drive to a USB cabled hard drive. Prepare the target #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 # bsdlabel -B

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 08:33, Aiza wrote: What happened to swap? The fstab will be showing it as the first file system on the hard drive slice. Is something missing here? Swap isn't a filesystem. There's no persistent content in a swap partition, so

Re: Dump/restore to clone disk

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:33:47PM +0800, Aiza wrote: I have seen this posted in the questions archives to be used to clone a active system hard drive to a USB cabled hard drive. Prepare the target #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 # fdisk -BI /dev/da0 # bsdlabel -B -w da0s1 #

Re: Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread utisoft
On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Maness
utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: From: Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 9:50 PM On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Rees
2009/9/14 Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com: utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server.  I lost a file that I need back.  Is it

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:15:55PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:50:05PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server.  I lost a file that I need back.  Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:01 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: In the restore : prompt you can add filename to add it to the restore list.  Works with folders, too. Excuse me, just a little terminology note:

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:37 PM On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:01 -0700 (PDT

Re: Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread utisoft
On 14 Sep 2009 22:38, Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:02:49 +, utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Yeah, unfortunately I still think of 'folders', and am continually wrong-footed by the term 'directory' in a graphical environment, even after years of GNU and FreeBSD use. Just imagine if the Xerox Alto and its first

Re: Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-14 Thread utisoft
On 14 Sep 2009 23:14, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:02:49 +, utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Yeah, unfortunately I still think of 'folders', and am continually wrong-footed by the term 'directory' in a graphical environment, even after years of GNU and

Re: Dump/Restore?

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Maness
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server.  I lost a file that I need back.  Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount?  Or even better, is it possible to just

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
target machine FreeBSD 6.2, target disk /dev/ad1s1a mounted on /mnt. Run dump -0aLf - / | ssh ip_address ''cd /mnt/ cat | restore - rf -'', dump/restore goes without any errors. 1 total nonsense: cat|restore instead of restore 2 probably nonsense: use rsh not ssh unless you really need

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン州
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Daniels Vanags daniels.van...@smpbank.lvwrote: Unable to successfully dump | restore over ssh. Source machine FreeBSD 6.2, disk /dev/mirror/gm0s1a, target machine FreeBSD 6.2, target disk /dev/ad1s1a mounted on /mnt. Run dump -0aLf - / | ssh ip_address

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: use rsh not ssh unless you really need encryption. Sure, you *could* do that, but be sure to encrypt *and* sign the backup stream beforehand, e.g. using openssl or gnupg... And even then, anyone sniffing that poorly encrypted (at

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 20 April 2009 14:59:55 cpghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: use rsh not ssh unless you really need encryption. Sure, you *could* do that, but be sure to encrypt *and* sign the backup stream beforehand, e.g. using openssl or gnupg... And

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Judd
Greetings, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Daniels Vanags daniels.van...@smpbank.lvwrote: Unable to successfully dump | restore over ssh. Source machine FreeBSD 6.2, disk /dev/mirror/gm0s1a, target machine FreeBSD 6.2, target disk /dev/ad1s1a mounted on /mnt. Run dump -0aLf - / |

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: [snip] Long story short, BTX is what brings the PC BIOS/CMOS code execution from 16-bit real mode, to 32-bit protected mode. I've had repeated problems with name-brand PCs that result in a BTX halted. Whiteboxes/custom builds tend to work the best (and IMHO, last the

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. I am not sure about /usr/compat/linux/proc but /dev and /proc are created on the fly by the system: Lines are added into /dev for each new device

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:50:49AM +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. These are pseudo file systems, and are dynamically managed by the system. You

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Rees
Subject: Re: Dump/Restore 2009/4/9 Daniels Vanags daniels.van...@smpbank.lv: Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. df -h Filesystem                     Size    Used   Avail Capacity

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore it always should be - before mounted as pseudo-fs devfs. df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/9 Daniels Vanags daniels.van...@smpbank.lv: Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. df -h Filesystem                     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:50:49AM +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. You only dump(8) file systems. /dev /procfs /dev/mirror/..., etc are

Re: dump/restore problem

2009-02-04 Thread A. Wright
Ivan; when I started a migration to new HDD, according few how-tos, I got the following warning: # dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad0s1f | restore -rf - When debugging dump/restore problems, it is always best to dump to a file, and then restore from the file -- this allows you to see which of dump and

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Schuller
dump -0af /mnt/d201gly-0.dump / [snip] restore -rf /mnt/restore/d201gly-0.dump it complains about '/' issues it complains about 'expecting YY got ZZ' I very rarely use dump/restore, but based on the man page I cannot see what's wrong other than the live fs issue already

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 31 August 2008 18:03:53 Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive the backup image. And you're sure that the large usb freebsd formatted file system is intact

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:03:53PM -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. There are a couple of things missing here. You may have done them and just not mentioned them, but... Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:53:36PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:49:10AM +0100, RW wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-01 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 02:49 AM 9/1/2008 +0100, RW wrote: dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to cause trouble later on. but shouldn't make NO files restored,

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have information that doesn't

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have information that doesn't work. Are you trying to

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man pages and have no clue how to rectify this. after re-reading the handbook on backup basics, I'm sure that anyone using them will loose everything. They are simply useless. take them offline. i use restore regularly and it works. anyway - i do test my backups at least full backups. but

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to cause trouble later on. but shouldn't make NO files restored, maybe few files that was changed while backing up.

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread RW
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root again - it will still dump file, maybe

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-21 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-21 Thread Kevin Sanders
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Eric
Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin Sanders
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f

Re: dump restore pain and suffering

2008-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:51:21PM -0700, Kevin Sanders wrote: I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Roland Smith wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. That might be worth filing a PR for, especially the panics. Exactly what is

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. That might

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. That might be

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Jerry McAllister wrote: Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk fitness tools. All the files that are readable contain correct data, but the files that are corrupt are totally not readable, and cannot even be removed manually: Given that, I would try to make a

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Roland Smith wrote: --8-- ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755 SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007 DIR=? UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY Did these problems start after a crash? It's possible, but I cannot be absolutely certain. The

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it. If the corruption is due to hardware failure, your data is probably lost. Ditto if the

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it. If the corruption is due to hardware failure, your data is probably

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it.

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it.

Re: dump/restore question

2006-11-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kimberly B wrote: If I have built a freebsd system to my liking and want to be able to reinstall fbsd to my pre-dump state (assuming the same slice configuration). I ran dump -L -0f - / dump -L -0f - /usr dump -L -0f - /var dump -L -0f - /tmp and save these files remotely.

Re: DUMP + RESTORE

2006-11-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made from. But I dare ask this question anyway ... If I have a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am

Re: DUMP + RESTORE

2006-11-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:33:07AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made from. But I dare ask this question anyway ... If I have

Re: dump restore question

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Shikoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I maked two dumps of root filesystem with dump(8): - the first of level 0 (all files) - the second of level 3 on the next day after level 0 (all files new or modified since dump of level 0 or level 3) Now I'm trying to restore filesystem with

Re: Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty (unused) space then the

Re: Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-20 Thread Elliot Finley
From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote: To restore the filesystems: Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've never smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At least the partitions were

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-18 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote: To restore the filesystems: Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've never smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At least the partitions were still there. Well this is more

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-06 Thread Xian
On Friday 06 May 2005 15:34, Andy Firman wrote: I am following this guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.htm l and successfully dumped /, /usr, and /var over ssh to another box and called them root-back.gz, usr-back.gz, and var-back.gz. But I can't

Re: dump/restore indexing question

2004-10-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
I have freebsd 4.10 on one of my production servers. I have been using the dump/restore combo to backup my drive, and I run a nightly dump -9 on the /home partition, and most of the dump -9s are dumped to a single tape since I don't have daily acs to swap the tapes more than once a

Re: dump restore

2004-04-12 Thread Mike Maltese
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet. split(1) and cat(1) perhaps? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dump restore

2004-04-12 Thread anubis
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet. regards You know that you can split dump files during the dump See man dump for the -B

Re: dump restore

2004-04-12 Thread Oliver Breuninger
Hello Anubis, if I have dump-seesions from tape, and I want to write parts of it on DVDs. But I'm interested in to have each part as an correct dump file. regards anubis wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files

Re: dump restore

2004-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Oliver Breuninger wrote: I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. You can split a file into pieces using split -b, and put the pieces together again via cat. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Dump/Restore to disk and tape

2002-12-10 Thread Oliver Crow
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus: Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file 'dump.0.2002-10-10'. Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of

Re: Dump/Restore to disk and tape

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus: Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file 'dump.0.2002-10-10'. Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of tapes, without having to do the dump from the original

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm currently using. For

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote: On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more filesystems than I'm

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread K . Oikonomakos
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!! Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my filesystems, zap all the partitions and do