Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:56:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump / Restore - Good backup method? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712125158.14275A-100000@destiny.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <199807121514.IAA03178@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Ok... now mounting.. no problem. And restoring... hm... restore rf > <filename> (in this man page example, that's a tape drive, right? For my > case, I would be outputting and restoring from a solid file. Not that > there is a real difference between a file and a device since they are > technically the same. :) ) You could replace all instances of the tape drive with a file, OR you could also specify the file/device as "host:file" and it will go fetch the file over the network. This is extremely useful if you have other unix machines on the network. Examples: [r]dump 0sf 200000 storm:/dev/nrst0 [r]restore if storm:/dev/nrst0 [interactive (partial) restore] [r]restore rf storm:/dev/nrst0 [full restore] Under most modern unixes, you may omit the leading 'r' (for remote) when using dump restore. Known exception: DEC Ultrix. You may also use dump/restore on solaris machines. They just renamed the commands to 'ufsdump' and 'ufsrestore' John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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