Re: Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:44:49AM -0500, Francois-Xavier Charpentier de Beauville wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a box with three hard drives: > >>/dev/da0 - dedicated to the OS > >>/dev/ad4s1e - data drive - mounted as /store > >>/dev/ad5s1e - hold a backup of /dev/ad4

Re: Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi, I have a box with three hard drives: /dev/da0 - dedicated to the OS /dev/ad4s1e - data drive - mounted as /store /dev/ad5s1e - hold a backup of /dev/ad4 - mounted as /backup I used 'dump' to backup everything from /store to /backup with the following command: dump

Re: Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

1) made /store pristine: newfs -U /dev/ad4s1e 2) mounted /dev/ad4s1e on /store 3) cd into /store 4) ran the command: restore -r -uv -f /backup/fullbackup 5) remove 'restoresymtable' from /store Thanks in advance for your help you did restore as root? (i think so but just for sure) it is someth

Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

Hi, I have a box with three hard drives: /dev/da0 - dedicated to the OS /dev/ad4s1e - data drive - mounted as /store /dev/ad5s1e - hold a backup of /dev/ad4 - mounted as /backup I used 'dump' to backup everything from /store to /backup with the following command: dump -0aun -f /backup/fullback