On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:01:08PM -0400, Matt Singerman wrote: > So, we had a server go boom. Fortunately, we run dump nightly, and > the files are copied to a remote server. However, I cannot find any > sort of instructions for restoring directly from files which will > preserver file permissions and the like. I am assuming it would be > one of the following scenarios: > > (1) Build a new system, copy over the files and run restore directly > to the same drive. > > (2) Add a new hard drive to an existing system, run fdisk and > disklabel, mount the new drive, and restore each file from dump (etc, > var, rootdir, etc). > > (3) An option I am not thinking of. > > So, any suggestions? All ideas welcome. Thanks!
Both 1 and 2 are viable, 2 is slightly easier to deal with. restore will preserve file permissions by default. Remember to use -r to restore instead of -x to extract -- it'll make sure all the inodes are the same too. You'll get asked to set root directory modes right at the end, this just chown/chmods the directories which it has restored and you should say yes to it. Another option it to stream the dumps from another computer and use "restore -rf -", I'm using this for some dumps which I've gzipped so I use zcat and the above.
