4.2BSD restore(8)

[richl at tektools.UUCP]

In article <801 at oliveb.UUCP> jerry at oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
> I have also noticed that after a restore all the files marked as
> changed and will go on the next dump.  [ ... ]
> 
> Procedurally this is a crock as after spending X hours of down time
> restoring the file system, you have to turn around and spend Y
> additional hours doing a new level 0 dump.

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.

Rick Lindsley
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