Bug 91297

Summary:	restore(8) man page not accurate?
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Mark Bucciarelli <mark>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	ru <ru>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Mark Bucciarelli 2006-01-04 05:20:03 UTC

              I believe the first bug listed in the restore man page is no longer correct.  The man page states: "The restore utility can get confused when doing incremental restores from dumps that were made on active file systems."

Is this still true if you use the "-L" argument to dump?  

If I understand how snapshots work, I think this man page statement is no longer precisely correct.  You are dumping a static snapshot of the file system, a snapshot that is created while writes are suspended.  So I would think restore should have no problems with restoring a series of incremental dumps that used the "-L" options.

If this is the case, it would be helpful to have this documenation clarified.

Comment 1 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2006-10-12 15:47:27 UTC

ru          2006-10-12 14:47:21 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    sbin/restore         restore.8 
  Log:
  Mention the -L option of dump(8) that can neutralize negative
  effects of restoring dumps of live file systems.
  
  PR:             docs/91297
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.52      +5 -2      src/sbin/restore/restore.8
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Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer

2006-10-12 15:47:41 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

I think you're right; I've fixed the description of a bug 
to mention the positive effect of the -L option of dump(8).

Comment 3 ru freebsd_committer

2006-10-12 15:47:41 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->ru

Comment 4 ru freebsd_committer

2006-10-16 13:01:07 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Merged into RELENG_6.

Comment 5 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2006-10-16 13:01:37 UTC

ru          2006-10-16 12:01:04 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
    sbin/restore         restore.8 
  Log:
  MFC: 1.52: Mention "dump -L".
  
  PR:             docs/91297
  Approved by:    re (hrs)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.50.2.1  +5 -2      src/sbin/restore/restore.8
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