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From: richl@tektools.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: 4.2BSD restore(8)
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 22:04:22 EDT
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In article <974@tektools.UUCP> richl@tektools.UUCP (Rick Lindsley) writes:
>
>If you really did just spend hours restoring the file system, then you
>have restored all or virtually all of the file system. If you don't
>want to do a level 0 dump, simply edit /etc/dumpdates to reflect
>whatever time you want dumps taken from. If you just restored the entire
> >file system you have the entire system on tape anyway; so you won't
> >miss anything by this.
> 

In article <8@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
> THIS IS BOTH INCORRECT AND DANGEROUS!

alas, Ed is correct. It's been too long since I've been intimate with
dump and restore. Rewind and erase my previous message.

Rick