Looking at the man pages for vrestore, I noticed there was no
flag on vrestore analogous to the -r of restore. It appears
that the only major restore flag for vrestore is -x. In
dump, the -r option causes not only the extraction of files
from the incremental dumps but also the removal of files that
had been removed since the previous lower-numbered dump.
So I did a test comparing dump/restore with vdump/vrestore.
I did a level 0 with both dump and vdump of a file system,
added a file (f1) and removed another (f2), and then did
a level 5 dump and vdump.
The results indicated that the vrestores did not remove the
file f2. This is similar to the behavior of "restore -x".
I haven't seen how to do the vrestores of a series of incremental
vdumps. What am I missing?
-mike
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