[BBLISA] Re: untested backups

[John Orthoefer]

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