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 example, create a new >> /home partition instead of using a symlink in / to /usr/home. >> >> I'm just wondering if this will present any problems when restoring from >> backups. I can't seem to glean this information from the man pages. > > Well it is going to work as long as the directory structure is not > changed. > But you will have to be extra carefull with your permissions when you > backup/restore your files. (what are you going to use for backup? > dump/restore?)
Yes, I'll be restoring from the backups I just finished making yesterday using dump/restore (with an ATAPI CD burner, no less; still in awe of that!). :-) I'm thinking it *should* work OK, as long as, as you said, I'm careful with permissions, and make sure everything gets restored to the right locations under the new filesystem layout. I figure mtree(8) should be helpful with this. The main reason I want to do this, besides to reclaim some wasted space from having /, /var, and /tmp partitions that are larger than I really need, is to make incremental backups easier later on (again, now that I can finally use dump/restore with my __ATAPI__ CD burner). :-) I'll report back later as to how it all went. Thanks. Oh, and if anyone's curious as to how I got my CD burner to work with dump/restore, just let me know. It was really simple actually. I'm running 5.0-CURRENT, by the way, but you -stable users definitely have something to look forward to very soon (if it hasn't already been MFC'ed). :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
