Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:12:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto@tsoft.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migrating to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810202007190.785-100000@juniper.ppp.tsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810020325010.276-100000@juniper.tsoft.net>
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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
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