From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 20:17:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08751 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from juniper.ppp.tsoft.com (juniper.ppp.tsoft.com [207.201.34.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08746 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jritorto@tsoft.net) Received: from localhost (jritorto@localhost) by juniper.ppp.tsoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00791 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jritorto@tsoft.net) X-Authentication-Warning: juniper.ppp.tsoft.com: jritorto owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:12:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jacob Ritorto X-Sender: jritorto@juniper.ppp.tsoft.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migrating to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm, I guess this is my end-of-the-month question: Is there any good automated way fo restore my /var filesystem? Perhaps reinstall an original-ish /var fs image? I haven't gotten to backups yet and I just lost all of /var (lucky, actually-- at least it wasn't /usr). I've been hacking it back together piece by piece, but things aren't working quite right and I'd like to just try and replace the whole thing. Anyone have a current dump image of a virgin /var, just after a x-developer installation? Short of that, how about a good description of what ought to be there & details on the permission structure... thanks. jake On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > > Hello. I've read and been impressed by your FreeBSD propaganda and have > converted to your platform from Slackware Linux. > During the migration, I backed up all my serious data to QIC-80 > tapes using tar. Now when I try to retrieve the data, the ft filter > says that I've inserted the wrong volume and won't accept the > volume name of the Linux-generated tape. How do I get around this? The > data was a backup of an old operating system for my pdp11 and I can't > replace it, so it's critical. > > thanks in advance > > Jacob Ritorto > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message