On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:20:42PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Russ,
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:35:37AM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> >
> > Just some comments re dump/restore...
> >
> > > > #2) Can you elaborate a bit on your method of piping xfsdump to
> > > > xfsrestore :)?
> > >
> > > The most basic form of xfsdump and its corresponding xfsrestore can be
> > > run
> > > back to back through a pipe to make a copy of a filesystem. Like this:
> > >
> > > xfsdump / - | xfsrestore - /mnt/
> > >
> > > The above command says run xfsdump on the root filesystem, send the
> > > output
> > > to stdout and pipe it to xfsrestore. The dash on the xfsrestore command
> > > says to read stdin as the dump input and /mnt/ is where it is to write to.
> > >
> > > I noticed that when I ran it on my / filesytem it didn't do something
> > > right
> > > on the /dev/ dir
> > If you know what exactly the problem is then we'd be very eager
> > to fix it.
> >
> Was it a problem with restoring of the correct major and minor
> device numbers that you had ?
<snip>
>
> If it is some other problem they we'd like to know...
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.
I don't remember what it was exactly. Seems like there were devices missing
so, yes, it very well could have been incorrect device numbers. I didn't
pay to much attention because once I figured out that it was just /dev that
was screwed up I just reapplied the dev rpm.
Russ
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