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If you're going to provide the path to the dump archive to ufsrestore you need to tell it with the 'f' switch (which says the next field on the command line is where the dump file is).

For...

Note:
ufsdump -
man pages section 4: File Formats (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36882/ufsdump-4.html)


There is magic in the headers, i.e. the file command will tell you if a...

I would expect that the .dmp files are ufsdump files and the .vtoc files are backups of the partition tables (vtoc=virtual table of contents).

Any sysadmin knows that if a drive fails, not only...

The sysadmin might well have created a script which read the vtoc and wrote it out to a file (.vtoc) and then snapshot the filesystem (fssnap), and then dumped it (ufsdump). So although ufsdump does...