From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 15:40:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5891216FCCC for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3550113C48E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 19335 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2007 15:40:49 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Feb 2007 15:40:49 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 49EA128426; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:40:48 -0500 (EST) To: Milan Knizek References: <200702191529.l1JFTqnI072474@lurza.secnetix.de> <200702191937.51967.knizek@volny.cz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:40:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200702191937.51967.knizek@volny.cz> (Milan Knizek's message of "Mon\, 19 Feb 2007 19\:37\:51 +0100") Message-ID: <44slcz7c3j.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:40:50 -0000 Milan Knizek writes: > On Monday 19 February 2007 16:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> knizek@volny.cz wrote: > >> A simpler solution for your restore problem would be >> to simply use a standard FreeBSD installation CD, >> then make a minimal installation on your hard disk >> so you have all the tools that you need, then restore >> your actual backups. > > How does restore behave when restoring to a live root file system (despite the > recommended split of /, swap, /usr, ... I am using a single partition of > freebsd slice for the complete system + swap + encrypted partition for some > data + different hdd for photos)? > > I want to be sure that the restored system is exactly the same as on backup, > that is to preferrably use -r option. For that case, I would follow the same advice from Oliver Fromme, except that instead of booting to a minimal installation on the hard disk, booting the fixit disk (to get the tools without having the hard disk mounted at all). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/