ugh. dump / restore problem(s) "Cannot find file dump list"

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Wed Nov 14 08:57:46 UTC 2012


On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:20:14 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
>   mount /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/ssd/var
>   cd /mnt/ssd/var
>   restore -r /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920
>   Cannot find file dump list

The last command looks wrong. The restore program requires
the dump file to be provided via -f, so

	# restore -rf /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920

should work. You can find an example in "man restore".



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