dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

J.D. Bronson jd_bronson at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 1 11:25:46 UTC 2008


At 02:49 AM 9/1/2008 +0100, RW wrote:
> > dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
>
>One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
>snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
>default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root
>partition.

I always enable soft-updates on all partitions during install or 
anytime a drive is replaced :-)

/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1d on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1f on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1g on /staff (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1h on /users (ufs, local, soft-updates)

-JD



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