Re: dump/restore with ufs2

From: Roland Smith (rsmith_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 12/30/04

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    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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