Hi, dumped today all filesystems of my FreeBSD laptop, which was a relatively new RELENG_5_2, because got new disk. Was unable to restore the filesystems using the official 5.2.1 DVD. Recovering - / was possible with a warning - /var was impossible - The rest I didnt try... Made a level 0 dump of all filesystems using -L since system complained when I made dump of a filesystem in use without -L. /sbin/dump 0Lubf 128 - / | gzip > dump-_ /sbin/dump 0Lubf 128 - /var | gzip > dump-_var /sbin/dump 0Lubf 128 - /usr | gzip > dump-_usr and so on ... For recovery - I made a minimum installation of 5.2.1 to get all dump images via ftp from server - Then I used custom options to partition/newfs via "W"rite option in the partition menue. The filesystems have been created and mounted since I entered the mount points. I didn't newfs /export of course... Now I entered fixit mode: The filesytems /mnt /mnt/var /mnt/usr ... etc ... Have been freshly created and were free. df shows correct size. Now I tried to restore using zcat /mnt/export/dump-_ | restore -r -f - Got error messages. Guessed it might be related to dump blocksize, that restore is unable to determine 128 automagically. Re-made / (umount/newfs) ... Then: zcat /mnt/export/dump-_ | restore -r -b 128 -f - This time I got / restored. With warnings I don't remember exactly "expected xxx got xxx" I was not so lucky recovering /var ... Tons of - "expected xxx got xxx" messages and - "Didnt find "." or ".." of a directory" and such ... Do you have an idea what was wrong ??? Did I make a mistake or is dump/restore hosed ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 13:30:44 UTC
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