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- From: dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Restoring root partition dumps
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 21:57:02 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- I just spent most of the day trying to restore a level-0 dump of
- my A/UX root partition. I wanted to allocate more space to the
- MacPartition, so I dumped /, /users and did a Retrospect dump of
- MacPartition. That done, I reran the A/UX Installer, fudging the
- space allocation. I then loaded a minimal A/UX system. Once I'd
- rebooted, I copied a unix kernel with Jim's tc driver off the floppy
- I'd saved it on and rebooted. That was the easy part. The hard
- part was trying to do a full reload of the root. The scanty man
- pages tell you to only do restore -r on an empty filesystem. Well,
- that works dandy for a secondary FS, but how the heck do you do the
- root FS??? I tried naively just doing it, but restore refused to
- overwrite any of the existing stuff. What I finally ended up doing
- was to do a restore -r in a /foo directory, reboot (cancelling the
- A/UX launch), renaming all of the files and directories in the root
- with a .xxx suffix, moving the corresponding files/directories from
- /foo to /, and (finally!) rebooting and cleaning up the *.xxx stuff.
- Someone please tell me I'm missing something obvious that I'd have
- seen if I'd shelled out the $$$ for the System Administration manuals!
-
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- #include <std_disclaimer.h>
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- Dan S.
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