Backup and Restore

[Tom H]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM, kate <katie2009 at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Using a command in terminal
>
> sudo dump -0uf /dev/sdb1 /
>
> This backs up the system to a external hard drive, how do I retrieve the
> information.
>
> The instructions say
>
> cd/xxx
>
> sudo restore -if /dev/sdb1
>
> after using this command nothing happens.
>
> cd/xxx is were the back up is, what instruction do I tell the terminal
> to display the contents of sdb1 external hard drive.

In your restore command "i" stands for interactive. Is this what you
really want? Are you trying to select certain files and directories to
restore?

If that is the case, I have no idea (and am sorry for the noise)
because I have never used that flag, but if you wast to restore your
entire dump (assuming that the disk that you want to restore to is
sda1 and the disk that you are restoring from is sdb1):

mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/sda1
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt
restore -rf /dev/sdb1