[linux-lvm] dump/restore on a regular file?

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:52:21PM +0530, kanika nema wrote:
> hi,
> 
> thanx the dump did work. But now, my restore isnt working, it keeps telling 
> me
> "no tapes read yet"
> or
> ".foo was not found on the tape"
> 
> When i gave restore with option 'C', it tell me that some files were 
> modified.
> 
> Please help me with the restore too.
> Thank u so much,
> Kanika
> 
> 
> 
> >dump 0f /backup/file.dump /mnt/path
> >  (normal dump of fs in /etc/fstab)

I assume the fs is mounted (and clean) at /mnt/newfs

  (cd /mnt/newfs; restore rf /backup/file.dump)

will restore the entire dump ...

if you just want to copy files from A to B
you can use the sequence

 cd /mnt/B ; dump 0f - /mnt/A | restore rf -

if your dumps are pretty large, specifying a size
will help you -s  100000 (this is neither MB nor
kB or bytes, this is in feet ;)

make sure that restore has enough space on /var/tmp

HTH,
Herbert

> >or
> >
> >dump 0zf /backup/file.dump /other/mnt/path
> >  (does compressed dumps, smaller)
> >
> >or
> >
> >dump 0zf /backup/file.dump /dev/unknown
> >  (dump of device not in /etc/fstab)
> >
> >HTH,
> >Herbert
> >
> >> thanx for ur help,
> >> Kanika
> >>
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