Thanx to Jim Fitzmaurice, Lucian Hercaud and Dr. Blinn on their replies
All pointed to me that the backup/restore is done sequentially, by the
INODE number not by the file name.
I quote this from Jim: "Remember, in UNIX the name means nothing,
EVERYTHING is a number."
MKMA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohamed K. Ahmed" <mkahmed_at_vsc.teksystems.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 9:57 am
Subject: sequential restore
> Hi Admins,
>
> Just a simple question that came to my mind while watching the
> /usr restoration on one of my test systems...
>
> If the backup procedure using dump command is sequential (depends
> on the alphabet) why is it not sequential while restoring?, and if it
> not sequential during the backups, why is it not?
>
> -MKMA
Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 20:20:47 NZDT