Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:12:14 -0700 From: "Kevin Sanders" <newroswell@gmail.com> To: "Dominic Fandrey" <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump restore pain and suffering Message-ID: <375baf50804210812y3e7fd7ady774188a91aa001bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <480C572A.6010407@bsdforen.de> References: <375baf50804111751o5078081elc7ffe4a0e1feceae@mail.gmail.com> <480C572A.6010407@bsdforen.de>
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > > Kevin Sanders wrote: > > > I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very > > little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD > > 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f > > /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf > > /mnt/test.root.dump. /mnt is a ufs formated usb drive. After the > > dump, I've even done a restore -rNf /mnt/test.root.dump just to make > > sure it doesn't complain out the dump file. > > > > I've read the handbook, found a few articles, googled all the errors. > > The header dumpdate thing is harmless, the expected next file is from > > it being a live system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is > > very usable. Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a > > restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes > > less than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not > > working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success > > with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real > > systems are not really backed up. > > > > I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting > water. > > > > Kevin > > > > I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives, sometimes even > through an ssh connection. The only thing you have to remember is to: > chmod 1777 /tmp > I finally got a good restore. I meant to reply all to document my solution, but hit reply to Anders only I guess. I was booting off the Live CD and had to soft link /tmp to a drive with some free space. After that everything worked perfect. Kevin
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