Re: [Dump-users] recover from strange incremental

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:42:40PM +0200, miLosh wrote:

> hello,
> 
> is it possible to recover the data from a dump1 file, without resp. with
> an empty(!) dump0 file? restore rf dump1 says: cannot stat
> restoresymlink - which is correct, there is no one.
> 
> i was told (not my system) that they are making once a week a level0 and
> each other day a level1 dump. they lost almost all data on the backuped
> filesystem due to a crash, but the dumps are luckly on a different
> partition (though the same disk ;). there's an empty dump0 file dating
> 12.05 - a day before the crash happend -  and a dump1 file dating 13.05.
> but the dump1 is almost 10 times bigger than all the other dump1's,
> fitting roughly the size of the filesystem, so my hope is big that all
> data is there.
> 
> but how can i get it out, any ideas?

Just use restore -xfa dump1

Stelian.
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