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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-02-22 09:40:12 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-02-22 09:40:12 +0000 |
commit | 4931b9fc25efdd9c0e3fa3c964637bd7b46eeb4f (patch) | |
tree | 20ffe82c92cce46b1c06c0efeaac9ce14d02173a /sbin | |
parent | 2648bc168279241e29f84ad68c07a047b89ded8a (diff) |
igor sobrado spotted that although we have mlinks for rdump and
rrestore, the pages they point to don;t actually mention them.
so make it clear that their functionality is now integral in dump and
restore, and sync the text a little between the two pages;
help/ok otto
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/dump/dump.8 | 19 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/restore/restore.8 | 20 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dump/dump.8 b/sbin/dump/dump.8 index 282ff4b1116..f48a5148eaf 100644 --- a/sbin/dump/dump.8 +++ b/sbin/dump/dump.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: dump.8,v 1.35 2005/08/02 10:49:49 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: dump.8,v 1.36 2007/02/22 09:40:11 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: dump.8,v 1.17 1997/06/05 11:15:06 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -62,9 +62,7 @@ on a filesystem and determines which files need to be backed up. These files are copied to the given disk, tape or other -storage medium for safe keeping (see the -.Fl f -option below for doing remote backups). +storage medium for safe keeping. A dump that is larger than the output medium is broken into multiple volumes. On most media the size is determined by writing until an @@ -73,6 +71,19 @@ This can be enforced by using the .Fl a option. .Pp +.Nm +works across networks, +replacing the functionality of the old +.Nm rdump +program +(though +.Nm +may still be invoked as +.Nm rdump ) . +See the +.Fl f +option for more on writing backups to remote hosts. +.Pp On media that cannot reliably return an end-of-media indication (such as some cartridge tape drives), each volume is of a fixed size; diff --git a/sbin/restore/restore.8 b/sbin/restore/restore.8 index 8b1cfac36b8..b56381966df 100644 --- a/sbin/restore/restore.8 +++ b/sbin/restore/restore.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: restore.8,v 1.27 2006/11/03 12:59:52 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: restore.8,v 1.28 2007/02/22 09:40:11 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: restore.8,v 1.15 1997/07/01 05:37:53 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 @@ -84,11 +84,6 @@ subsequent incremental backups layered on top of it. Single files and directory subtrees may be restored from full or partial backups. -.Nm -works across a network; -to do this see the -.Fl f -flag described below. Other arguments to the command are file or directory names specifying the files that are to be restored. Unless the @@ -97,6 +92,19 @@ flag is specified (see below), the appearance of a directory name refers to the files and (recursively) subdirectories of that directory. .Pp +.Nm +works across networks, +replacing the functionality of the old +.Nm rrestore +program +(though +.Nm +may still be invoked as +.Nm rrestore ) . +See the +.Fl f +option for more on reading backups from remote hosts. +.Pp Exactly one of the following flags is required: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl i |