Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:05:12 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo.raburu@wananchi.com> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system Message-ID: <20060819070512.GA95638@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200608191328.45959.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <20060817155121.GA93194@ns2.wananchi.com> <200608191328.45959.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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* On 19/08/06 13:28 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: | On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I believe that this might be possible.. | > | > I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a | > remote host: | > | > dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip > snapshot.gz' | > | > Now I have the file snapshot.gz on the remote host. | > | > Two questions: | > | > 1. How can I mount this snapshot and access its contents? | | # zcat snapshot.gz | restore -i -f - | See the restore(8) man page. Thanks for this. I did read the restore man page, but I missed the point. I'll stop working late into the night! | > 2. How can I use this snapshot to create another system (a | > clone)? | This question leaves me wondering whether you realise that dump | only backsup a single partition. From your dump you can only | clone the root partition which usually is quite small and does | not on its own lead to a useful system. I know that fact. I needed to have clarified that this dump is actually the "whole system, all partitions". In this particular case, the disk is divided into two, swap (2.5xRAM) and / only. | Anyway to restore this you need to create a suitable partition, | initialise it with newfs, mount the partition, cd into the | partition and then run restore -r. Again look at the restore(8) | man page. Oops... putting on my worn out boots and running to restore(8). Thank you very very much. My actual problem was that I read too much of the dump(8), until I simply got dumped ;) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Laptrust Plaza, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day...
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