docs/91297: restore man page not accurate?

Wed Jan 4 05:20:05 UTC 2006

>Number:         91297
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       restore man page not accurate?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 04 05:20:03 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Bucciarelli
>Release:        6.0
>Organization:
GAIA Host Collective, LLC
>Environment:
FreeBSD greasecar.gaiahost.coop 6.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 30 10:39:24 EST 2005     root at greasecar.gaiahost.coop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAIABSD  i386
>Description:
              I believe the first bug listed in the restore man page is no longer correct.  The man page states: "The restore utility can get confused when doing incremental restores from dumps that were made on active file systems."

Is this still true if you use the "-L" argument to dump?  

If I understand how snapshots work, I think this man page statement is no longer precisely correct.  You are dumping a static snapshot of the file system, a snapshot that is created while writes are suspended.  So I would think restore should have no problems with restoring a series of incremental dumps that used the "-L" options.

If this is the case, it would be helpful to have this documenation clarified.
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