Generic Problem with BSD dump/restore

[Matt Crawford]

John Gilmore asks the burning question:
>
>   *	Why did restore complain about a few files, when the dumps were
>	both taken on quiescent, fsck'd file systems?

Fsck doesn't read the data blocks, so those may have had errors
which caused dump to skip them.

I also have noticed that it takes semi-infinite time to do an
incremental restore.  Why *is* this so?  Was the dump/restore
system optimized to speed up the more common dump at the expense
of the less common restore operation?
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