Re: BAH! I've taken a dump and want to verify it ;)

[Myk Taylor <myk@ucla.edu>]

> I'm trying to back up my file systems (/, /var, and /usr)
...
> ===========================
> Tape
> ===========================
> valhalla: /home $ sudo restore -i
> restore > pwd
> /
> restore > cd /home
> restore > pwd
> /home
> restore > ls
> ./home:

Is /home a separate file system?  You didn't list /home as a partition 
in your first post, but this 'empty' directory would indicate that there 
were no data in this dir from the perspective of the file system you 
dumped.  Dump works on a per-fs basis, so if /usr and /var are 
partitions too, those dirs should also be empty in your 'dump /' backup.

Finally, since your dump seems to start at /, you should be in / when 
you 'sudo restore'.  as written in your example, your files would be 
restored to /home/home/...

man dump, note references to 'single filesystem'

--myk taylor