On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:17:29 -0600  Wenchi Liao wrote:

> This is from the man page of restore(8) in 1.4.1 (BUGS section):
> 
>      A level zero dump must be done after a full restore.  Because restore
>      runs in user code, it has no control over inode allocation; thus a full
>      dump must be done to get a new set of directories reflecting the new in-
>      ode numbering, even though the content of the files is unchanged.
> 
> What does this mean? running dump on the restored machine will
> reset the inode numbering?

If you backup a filesystem, delete all the files and then re-load them
from a bacukp the file contents will be the same, but the inode
numbers will have changed.

After such a procedure, start with a full level 0 dump again; don't
attempt to make an "incremental" backup based on some previous full
backup.

Regards,

Giles