dump/restore question

[Kevin Kinsey]

Kimberly B wrote:
> If I have built a freebsd system to my liking and want to be able to reinstall 
> fbsd to my pre-dump state (assuming the same slice configuration). I ran
>    
>   dump -L -0f - /
>   dump -L -0f - /usr
>   dump -L -0f - /var
>   dump -L -0f - /tmp
>    
>   and save these files remotely.
>    
>  Could I then expect to reinstall fbsd and restore these dump files and have the same 
 >  state of the system when I dumped?  including all ports and all?
>    
>   kimberly

Yes.  Ymmv.

Kevin Kinsey