backup and restore

[triumdh]

I have successfully backed up and restored a system but am now looking to gzip this process.

My dump

dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad4s1a | gzip > /backup/dump.usr.gz

My restore

cd /usr
restore -xuf /backup/dump.usr.gz

I receive

Tape is not a dump tape

I see in the restore command I am not specifying that it is a zipped file. I would appreciate some help or direction with this.

 

[fronclynne]

Perhaps [cmd=""]gunzip < /path/to/dump.usr.gz | restore -flags[/cmd]?

 

[graudeejs]

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=185