Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:08:37 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example Message-ID: <20130304100837.41f5084d9b0c5817957a6ed1@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <4861.1362390444@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <4861.1362390444@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > > In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: > > The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if > not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example: > > newfs /dev/da0s1a > mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt > cd /mnt > > restore rf /dev/sa0 > > > Personally, I utterly fail to see what point the author is attempting > to illustrate with the above example. I mean what part of this, exactly, > may be "detrimental to one's health" ? It's an enigma to me. There's nothing wrong with the example. I think "An example:" should be in a new paragraph to make it clear that it is not related to the warning. The detrimental effects cut in when you use -r on a filesystem that is not pristine, or at least in the expected state for restoring an incremental dump. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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