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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:45:23 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Kimberly B <kembery22@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump/restore question
Message-ID:  <456F42E3.6070007@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20061130201959.3652.qmail@web38804.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20061130201959.3652.qmail@web38804.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Kimberly B wrote:
> If I have built a freebsd system to my liking and want to be able to reinstall 
> fbsd to my pre-dump state (assuming the same slice configuration). I ran
>    
>   dump -L -0f - /
>   dump -L -0f - /usr
>   dump -L -0f - /var
>   dump -L -0f - /tmp
>    
>   and save these files remotely.
>    
>  Could I then expect to reinstall fbsd and restore these dump files and have the same 
 >  state of the system when I dumped?  including all ports and all?
>    
>   kimberly

Yes.  Ymmv.

Kevin Kinsey



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