[BBLISA] Re: untested backups

[David Allan]

I'd strongly advise trying this (and everything else) out on a 
non-production server until you get the hang of it.  That might be a 
problem if you don't have a tape unit available, but it's the safest path.

Dave


On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> Now that I'm back at work, I reviewed the restore man page and some other web 
> pages on restore, and want to verify:
>
> I'm in a scratch/temp directory, and type:
> restore rf (maybe with i, too) /dev/tape
>
> the result will restore the dump to the current scratch/temp location so 
> nothing in the active filesystem is overwritten?
>
> If true, I'll test it asap.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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