Backup and Restore

[kate]

Thanks Tom

Kate


On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:10 +0100, Tom H wrote:
> 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
>