dump/restore with ufs2

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:54:25PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> > When I run the following script, I get a warning message, and I'm
> > wondering if it's ignorable or indicates there is a little more work to be
> > done in getting dump/restore happy with ufs2...
> > 
> > $ cd /altroot
> > $ dump -L -0 -a -f - /dev/$ROOT | restore -rf -
> >   ...
> > warning: ./.snap: File exists
> > 
> > Does this mean my snapshots are being overwritten on the target disk? And
> > if so, that's a good thing, right?
> 
> That's just a warning that .snap already exists in the current directory
> (which is because it gets created by newfs); the contents will remain
> unaffected since snapshots are not dumped (I believe).

A snapshot _is_ what is being dumped when you use the -L option to
dump. See the manual page.

Roland
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