You can restore the data from the dump file to any volume name you'd like. (keeping in mind the length restrictions ;-) Remember that the volume 'homestaff.user.backup' is simply a readonly snapshot copy of 'homestaff.user' created at some instant in time. What you are doing with a restore is creating a new RW volume with the saved data from that backup volume.
If the original RW volume still exists and you just want to recover some lost or accidentally deleted data, restore the data to volume 'temp.user.restore' and mount that volume somewhere. You can now copy things out of the restored volume into the original 'homestaff.user' volume. After the lost data has been recovered, unmount 'temp.user.restore' and delete it. HTH, K.C. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Croonenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:42 AM To: Kevin Coffman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: [OpenAFS] .....exceeds the size limit thanks for responding so quickly. Ok this works...but it restores the dump to the homestaff.user volume. Here's what I do to make a backup : I create a backup volume with vos. So if the volume is called homestaff.user, the backup volume is called homestaff.user.backup. Then I use vos to dump that volume in a file. So after the disaster hits, I want to get the dumpfile from tape, and restore the homestaff.user.backup volume... right ? (that way I can mount it and restore "stuff". It is convenient to be avle to restore the original volume directly too, but I would also want to restore the backup volume. Is it because the backup volume is readonly that it doesn't want me to restore it ? thanks, >Try using "-name homestaff.user" rather than "-name homestaff.user.backup". >The command is making sure it will have room to add ".backup" and >".readonly" to the name you giving it. That is where the size limit is >being exceeded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Ron Croonenberg Technology Coordinator Department of ComputerScience DePauw University Julian Science & Math Center 602 South College Ave. Greencastle, IN 46135 Phone: 1 765 658 4761 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info