From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 09:52:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDAA1065673 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011C18FC16 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:52:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so3726285bwz.13 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:52:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=aptUzO2g9snF5+mGL+c7QdpoACfBUqXpF9sXa5Bmh30=; b=EWT8adN3w0XMpPab4Nf35wpHvGHxbu8CyA7nsbBUFm0YtL1lmmHUpynPJGJYVhVSDk lCXphFGOoxV9WaHJtkclT7k59CtQIckUIxuSq0ljGMDg/0lOjKrWnzidf3yonfbIg+AH taBWUUAXU97w60cqnTxl/rs3CxiZbzfXgAhAk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; b=bRyDKRD8WTpGAh7f8VzIkQnj8FRuv/UnxFbtyg2ROL4wGsVbXtaIUY4i/aZgXMtRW/ eMS042ZpaZUIhaKxMlD/DWuhZcI5UnyxrMktBZffN4Pj9OnLywvhXOKsczQZwUPutEr5 p+yxNzdOkeR/4D7kdAb/gsN4Qc8cl0JX0ZjYk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.127.29 with SMTP id e29mr3052205bks.52.1301737944815; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.64.142 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.64.142 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:52:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount a dumpfile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:52:26 -0000 On 2 Apr 2011 00:08, "Warren Block" wrote: > > Is it possible to mount a dump(8) dumpfile? restore(8) obviously knows everything about the file structure, and restore -i is nearly a read-only mount_dump already. Restore -i isn't really anything like a mount; it works on a stream (which is why it works on tapes and stdin) where the first but is the file list, telling restore how far to skip to get the file. This is why ls is fast on it, but when you tell it to restore it then takes a little time. If you want proper interactive backups, I'd respectfully suggest you start using rsync incremental backup, for which I have a script sy home I'd you're interested. Chris