restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:29:49PM +0100, Mel wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 10:23:29 cpghost wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:25:32PM -0500, C Thala wrote:
> > > > However, I don't have an actual live filesystem available to test this
> > > > on....can I just restore to a directory on an existing fs to be sure?
> > > > Is this even possible?
> > >
> > > Never mind...to answer my own question, I had to use the "add" feature
> > > in the interactive shell, i.e.:
> > >
> > > $ restore -i -f dump
> > > restore > add etc
> > > restore > extract
> >
> > If you want to test the *entire* dump file, you can also
> > use -r. Just make an empty directory somewhere, cd(1)
> > into it, and restore the dump there:
> >
> > % mkdir /path/to/new/dir
> > % cd /path/to/new/dir
> > % restore -r -f /path/to/old/dumpfile
> 
> man restore:
> -r      Restore (rebuild a file system).
> 
> This will recreate the filesystem, meaning, the files extracted will have 
> identical inode numbers as on the original filesystem. Thus, you will very 
> likely run into problems when using this mode.
> 
> You're looking for -x, which extracts a dump file, similar to a tar, restoring 
> ownership, file times and so on, but leaving the inode numbers up to the OS.
> 
> restore -x is essentially what OP did interactively.

No.   restore -r is the correct one to use if you want to restore the
whole dump in to a directory.   You can also use restore -x, but that
is generally intended to restore named files/directories.

If you want to do that, it is often easier doing a restore -i which
the OP mentioned doing above.

////jerry

> -- 
> Mel
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