On Tue Sep 2 14:01:06 UTC 2008 Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Sunday 31 August 2008 18:03:53 Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted,
single
user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive
the
backup image.
And you're sure
dump -0af /mnt/d201gly-0.dump /
[snip]
restore -rf /mnt/restore/d201gly-0.dump
it complains about '/' issues
it complains about 'expecting YY got ZZ'
I very rarely use dump/restore, but based on the man page I cannot see
what's wrong other than the live fs issue already
On Sunday 31 August 2008 18:03:53 Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single
user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive the
backup image.
And you're sure that the large usb freebsd formatted file system is intact
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:03:53PM -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
There are a couple of things missing here. You may have done them
and just not mentioned them, but...
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:53:36PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man
pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:49:10AM +0100, RW wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require
At 02:49 AM 9/1/2008 +0100, RW wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be
changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to
cause trouble later on.
but shouldn't make NO files restored,
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have
information that doesn't work.
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have
information that doesn't
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man
pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook
rather then have information that doesn't work.
Are you trying to
man pages and have no clue how to rectify this. after re-reading the
handbook on backup basics, I'm sure that anyone using them will loose
everything. They are simply useless. take them offline.
i use restore regularly and it works.
anyway - i do test my backups at least full backups. but
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be
changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to
cause trouble later on.
but shouldn't make NO files restored, maybe few files that was changed
while backing up.
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root
again - it will still dump file, maybe
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