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

[Rick Barter <rvb@houston.rr.com>]

Myk Taylor wrote:

> 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

Yes, /home is a seperate filesystem.  My filesystems information follows:

valhalla: /home/rvb01 $ mount
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)
/dev/wd0d on /tmp type ffs (local)
/dev/wd0e on /var type ffs (local)
/dev/wd0f on /usr type ffs (local)
/dev/wd0g on /home type ffs (local)

Now, I see what you mean about /home and /usr and /var being empty in my 
/ backup.  However, how do I see the backups for each filesystem?

I did my dump as follows:

/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /
/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /var
/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /home

Thanks for your help with this.  It's very much appreciated.

rvb