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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: another question about dump & restore
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Date: 8 Jun 88 17:09:56 GMT
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   From: Kurt Indermaur <indermau@dg>

   In the man pages for restore, under "BUGS", is the sentence "Restore can get
   confused when doing incremental restores from dump tapes that were made on
   active file systems."  What is an "active file system"?  Nobody logged in?
   Single user mode?  

This doesn't answer all you questions, but a file system that is unmounted,
or mounted read-only is inactive. Dump root and user in single user mode,
and you can do the rest this way. My home directory is on a very large
root for exactly this reason.

   I recently had a bad experience with dump/restore, which resulted (I think)
   from an active file system when the dump was made, and I'd like to avoid 
   those problems in the future.

I have also had bad experiences with incremental restores, so I never do
them. I always do a restore x into a virgin directory and merge the
results by hand.

I consider full dumps sacred, to be done correctly, and incremental dumps
somewhat open to error, but this is my personal preference.

   Thanks again,

   Kurt Indermaur
   (indermau@dg.cs.umn.edu)

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
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