On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:11:34PM +0100, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg typed: > Hi list. > > Im trying to setup a machine to mirror its entire drive using > dump/restore to a secondary drive. > The dump works fine, but at the end of each session, restore always > asks "set owner/mode for '.'"?. This makes it impossible to automate > the task, which is what I would to accomplish.
What exact commands are you using? I have scripts doing cd /mnt/drive2/partitionX dump 0aLf - /partitionX | restore rf - without being asked anything. > I have read the man-page, browsed the internet and searched trough > mailinglist archives, but nowhere have I found a way to make restore > assume that the answer to the question should be 'yes'. I have come > across a few patches floating around that is supposed to fix this, > but I would prefer not to use patches against the base system. > > I know that there are other utilities available that could > probably do this, but Ive been teached that you should always use > dump when doing full backups of the root filesystem, and Im also > comfortable using dump and restore so I would like to continue to do > so if possible. > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > -- > R > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"