Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 04:29:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies Message-ID: <20080901042921.R21198@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080901024910.16ca76ae@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <48BB2359.4000208@xmission.com> <200808312353.m7VNrbCI024287@cheyenne.hanadarko.com> <20080901024910.16ca76ae@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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> >> >> 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 again - it will still dump file, maybe with few files missing but not the whole dump
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