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From: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit)
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Subject: Re: dump onto OD
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Date: 8 Dec 89 22:44:08 GMT
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In article <130042@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) asks if
my "restore rf -" might not overwrite some critical files.

In reality, you normally only use "restore rf" for full restores, in
which case you have probably done a newfs before the restore.  There
are also a few other complications, like where is your kernel at that
time - I would probably net boot the machine in question which isn't
always an option.

However, what I should have written is a "zcat blah | restore if -"
which is what I have actually used more often, allowing you to do
an interactive restore of the files you really want (if you don't want
them all).

gerrit