On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:54:25PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > > When I run the following script, I get a warning message, and I'm > > wondering if it's ignorable or indicates there is a little more work to be > > done in getting dump/restore happy with ufs2... > > > > $ cd /altroot > > $ dump -L -0 -a -f - /dev/$ROOT | restore -rf - > > ... > > warning: ./.snap: File exists > > > > Does this mean my snapshots are being overwritten on the target disk? And > > if so, that's a good thing, right? > > That's just a warning that .snap already exists in the current directory > (which is because it gets created by newfs); the contents will remain > unaffected since snapshots are not dumped (I believe).
A snapshot _is_ what is being dumped when you use the -L option to dump. See the manual page. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards
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