Hi
Thanks to James Sainsbury and John Tan for their advices.
The following two commands have both produced the same result, only -r
option additionally created restoresymtable file:
dump -0f - / | (cd /root_saved; restore -rf -)
and
dump -0f - / | (cd /root_saved; restore -xf -)
Original question was:
" Usually I used -r option with restore utility for restoring a whole
partition from a tape, e.g.
mount /dev/rz0a /mnt
cd /mnt; restore -r
This time I simply need to save root partition into some directory on
another partition.
I thought that the following would do it:
dump -0f - / | (cd /root_saved; restore -rf -)
or would it be
dump -0f - / | (cd /root_saved; restore -xf -) ?
I was going to use the second option (-x), but, I am afraid , I don't have
clear understanding of
what the difference between using options -r and -x in this example is.
I wonder if someone can enlighten me on this.
Thank you. "
Nik Tarasyuk
Software Engineer
Snowy Hydro
Australia
Received on Wed Jul 11 2001 - 05:02:52 NZST