Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system
* On 19/08/06 13:28 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: | On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I believe that this might be possible.. | > | > I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a | > remote host: | > | > dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz' | > | > Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. | > | > Two questions: | > | > 1. How can I mount this snapshot and access its contents? | | # zcat snapshot.gz | restore -i -f - | See the restore(8) man page. Thanks for this. I did read the restore man page, but I missed the point. I'll stop working late into the night! | > 2. How can I use this snapshot to create another system (a | > clone)? | This question leaves me wondering whether you realise that dump | only backsup a single partition. From your dump you can only | clone the root partition which usually is quite small and does | not on its own lead to a useful system. I know that fact. I needed to have clarified that this dump is actually the "whole system, all partitions". In this particular case, the disk is divided into two, swap (2.5xRAM) and / only. | Anyway to restore this you need to create a suitable partition, | initialise it with newfs, mount the partition, cd into the | partition and then run restore -r. Again look at the restore(8) | man page. Oops... putting on my worn out boots and running to restore(8). Thank you very very much. My actual problem was that I read too much of the dump(8), until I simply got dumped ;) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php --+- Odhiambo WASHINGTON. WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Laptrust Plaza, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI --+- Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe that this might be possible.. > > I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a > remote host: > > dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz' > > Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. > > Two questions: > > 1. How can I mount this snapshot and access its contents? # zcat snapshot.gz | restore -i -f - See the restore(8) man page. > 2. How can I use this snapshot to create another system (a > clone)? This question leaves me wondering whether you realise that dump only backsup a single partition. From your dump you can only clone the root partition which usually is quite small and does not on its own lead to a useful system. Anyway to restore this you need to create a suitable partition, initialise it with newfs, mount the partition, cd into the partition and then run restore -r. Again look at the restore(8) man page. Malcolm > > Thank you for today ;) > > > > -Wash > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mounting a snapshot of a file system
Hi all, I believe that this might be possible.. I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a remote host: dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz' Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. Two questions: 1. How can I mount this snapshot and access its contents? 2. How can I use this snapshot to create another system (a clone)? Thank you for today ;) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will atttempt to use it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
