On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kevin Sanders wrote: > > > I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very > > little success. Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD > > 7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f > > /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf > > /mnt/test.root.dump. /mnt is a ufs formated usb drive. After the > > dump, I've even done a restore -rNf /mnt/test.root.dump just to make > > sure it doesn't complain out the dump file. > > > > I've read the handbook, found a few articles, googled all the errors. > > The header dumpdate thing is harmless, the expected next file is from > > it being a live system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is > > very usable. Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a > > restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes > > less than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not > > working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success > > with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real > > systems are not really backed up. > > > > I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting > water. > > > > Kevin > > > > I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives, sometimes even > through an ssh connection. The only thing you have to remember is to: > chmod 1777 /tmp >
I finally got a good restore. I meant to reply all to document my solution, but hit reply to Anders only I guess. I was booting off the Live CD and had to soft link /tmp to a drive with some free space. After that everything worked perfect. Kevin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
