4.2BSD restore(8)

[Rick Lindsley]

In article <974 at tektools.UUCP> richl at tektools.UUCP (Rick Lindsley) writes:
>
>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.
> 

In article <8 at mtxinu.UUCP> ed at mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
> THIS IS BOTH INCORRECT AND DANGEROUS!

alas, Ed is correct. It's been too long since I've been intimate with
dump and restore. Rewind and erase my previous message.

Rick