Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 21:55:07 -0700 From: Gregory Carvalho <GregoryC@stcinc.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with tar Message-ID: <376C742B.CEEC77F3@stcinc.com> References: <376C461C.4A4B8C28@stcinc.com> <19990620113505.G1076@freebie.lemis.com>
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I've answered in the body below. BTW, I'm anxiously waiting fo receive the next edition of your book from Walnut Creek (who are actually right around the corner). Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 19 June 1999 at 18:38:36 -0700, Gregory Carvalho wrote: > > /root, /bin, /sbin and the other root directorys are not restoring when > > tar -xvz is issued:( > > > > Two objectives for the restore: test a disaster recovery scenario, > > expand partition sizes. > > > > First I used dd to overwrite the beginning of the 18GB drive (which had > > FreeBSD 3.1 Release). I then used the FreeBSD 3.1 Release CDROM to load > > FreeBSD. I used Novice, and configured very little (partitions and > > mouse). > > > > The following entry in crontab was used to backup on DDS3 DAT for a > > couple of weeks prior to using dd: > > 30 2 * * 2-6 root /usr/bin/tar -cvz / > > You don't need the -z option on DDS3. The tape compression does just > as good a job, and it may speed things up. I'll drop z from the command word. > > > The mail generated by the backup appeared good (although I am > > uncertain whether /root or the others were in the list). > > It looks as if you should have kept the mail messages. > The mail message certainly had /wpmacros as well as other WordPerfect directories. They were listed at the end of the cron result message. Yes, I should have copied them to another machine, ouch. > > I tried to use tar -xvpz from /, but the root dirs did not get > > restored. > > What happened? Nothing? /etc was restored. crontab has the tar command I entered. Samba and Hylafax are functional upon restore. /usr was fully restored (from the sampling I have reviewed). > > > tar -tvz displays entries from: /dev, /stand, /etc. It does not show > > those mentioned above. In addition I installed WordPerfect 8 for Linux, > > which created a dir named /wpmacros. The directory definetly was listed > > in the mail results from cron. /wpmacros was not restored nor listed in > > -tvz. > > It looks to me as if you overwrote your tapes. The command you're > using is OK. The Thursday tape was ran at 2:30am on Friday. Friday3 was ran at 2:30am on Saturday (today). > > > I am soliciting suggestions on how to restore the dirs. If it is not > > possible with the create command I issued, then please let me know > > the command. If the command I need to issue is something I have not > > mentioned here to extract the dirs, please let me know what the > > command is. > > > In God I Trust! > > Maybe that's your solution. I don't think anybody else can help much. It is my solution. And FreeBSD is my solution to my client's computing needs, hence my concern. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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