[BBLISA] Re: untested backups

[Brian O'Neill]

John Orthoefer wrote:
> Brian O'Neill wrote:
>>
>> "r" is to restore the whole filesystem. A checkpoint file is 
>> maintained (restoresymtable I believe) that allows for restoring a 
>> full dump, then incrementals, and properly removing files that no 
>> longer existed at the time of the incremental. This is what you want 
>> to use if you are restoring the whole filesystem, especially if you 
>> need to restore a set of incrementals.
> 
> This must be a new feature of the -r option.  Because no version of 
> restore I've ever used could do that.  Use to be restore would get you a 
> superset of files, all the files, + all the deleted files picked up on 
> the restore unless there was a name collision.  Which use to cause 
> problems when you where trying to restore an almost full disk.
> johno
> 

As I said, its been years since I've used it, but I believe that was the 
whole purpose of it. The problem was that it "cleaned up" the filesystem 
AFTER it restored all the new files, so you could easily fill up the 
filesystem during the restore.

-Brian