Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:35:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gregory Carvalho <GregoryC@stcinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with tar Message-ID: <19990620113505.G1076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <376C461C.4A4B8C28@stcinc.com>; from Gregory Carvalho on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 06:38:36PM -0700 References: <376C461C.4A4B8C28@stcinc.com>
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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. > 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. > I tried to use tar -xvpz from /, but the root dirs did not get > restored. What happened? Nothing? > 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. > 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. 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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