On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:15:26PM -0600, Steve Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have my first OpenBSD recovery to perform. YEAH! lol.
>
> I have a rsync backup of all the individual files over to another server.
>
> I also have a level 0 "dump" of each filesystem sent over to another server.
>
> As I am planning for my restore (onto a new drive), it occurs to me
> that I have never recorded the sizes of the filesystems anywhere.
>
> Are the sizes of the filesystem(s) stored anywhere on the drive that
> would have been backed up so I can recreate them with an appropriate
> size?
>
> The (old) system is OpenBSD 4.0 running on i386. No dmesg for
> obvious reasons!
>
> Just out of curiosity, is it possible to restore a level 0
> filesystem dump to NON-pristine filesystem?
> eg: could I just create one huge "a" partition and restore my root,
> var, src, usr, ... level 0 dumps to it (with some magic
> incantation)?
yes, -x and the interactive mode extract by name.
-Otto
