Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:49:10 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies Message-ID: <20080901024910.16ca76ae@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200808312353.m7VNrbCI024287@cheyenne.hanadarko.com> References: <48BB2359.4000208@xmission.com> <200808312353.m7VNrbCI024287@cheyenne.hanadarko.com>
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500 "J.D. Bronson" <jd_bronson@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root partition.
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