Re: Simple BSD Backup System

Andrew Reilly wrote:
You can see what has happened with the dump file without too much trouble,
because (a) restore can be run in a directory other than root, for
trial-restores, and (b) you can run restore in interactive mode ("-i"),
and use the cd and ls commands in that to poke around to see what has
happened. If the -a theory from the previous paragraph was indeed the
issue, then you'll probably find that restore stops to ask you for the
next tape, which you obviously won't have.

couldn't one also ungzip the file and make an md to mount if it's a backup of a partition rather than a tree (same way you can mount an ISO)? if it works like that then a partial restore would be possible as well.

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