From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 12 09:56:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17347 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from destiny.erols.com (root@destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17333 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdowdal@destiny.erols.com) Received: from destiny.erols.com (someone@destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by destiny.erols.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA14315; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:56:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:56:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Dowdal To: Carroll Kong cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump / Restore - Good backup method? In-Reply-To: <199807121514.IAA03178@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Ok... now mounting.. no problem. And restoring... hm... restore rf > (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