On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:04:14 -0600, Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net>
wrote:
> On 06/24/10 13:15, Steve Williams wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have my first OpenBSD recovery to perform. YEAH! lol.
>>
>> I have a rsync backup of all the individual files over to another
server.
>>
>> I also have a level 0 "dump" of each filesystem sent over to another
>> server.
>>
>> As I am planning for my restore (onto a new drive), it occurs to me
that
>> I have never recorded the sizes of the filesystems anywhere.
>>
>> Are the sizes of the filesystem(s) stored anywhere on the drive that
>> would have been backed up so I can recreate them with an appropriate
>> size?
>>
>> The (old) system is OpenBSD 4.0 running on i386. No dmesg for obvious
>> reasons!
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, is it possible to restore a level 0 filesystem
>> dump to NON-pristine filesystem?
>> eg: could I just create one huge "a" partition and restore my root,
var,
>> src, usr, ... level 0 dumps to it (with some magic incantation)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Williams
>>
>>
>> !DSPAM:4c23c13253278003320719!
>>
>
> If you are lucky, look in /var/backups/ for
> disklabel.{your_drive_id}.current, which is suitable for disklabel -R.
>
> man changelist
> man daily
> man disklabel
>
> Good luck!
That is fantastic.
Thanks so much! Lots of other juicy stuff in /var/backups as well :-)
Have a great day.
Cheers,
Steve
