From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 6 3: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hypernet.hyper.net (hypernet.hyper.gr [193.218.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED22D37B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:01:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dxoch@escape.gr) Received: from escape.gr (bus.hyper.gr [193.218.2.30]) by hypernet.hyper.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Hypernet-0.1) with ESMTP id NAA24674 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:16:47 +0200 Message-ID: <3AA4C35A.E20BA517@escape.gr> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:00:42 +0200 From: dxoch Organization: ESCAPE Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: fr,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Backup + Dump + floppies = problem! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, After reading the Handbook and other resources i came to the conclusion that dump is maybe the most reliable solution for making backups on a FreeBSD Box.I also understood that is much better to perform the backup procedure on unmounted filesystems. But... I dont want to use a spare hard disk to boot from, because it is not practical, and i have boxes that can not boot from a CDROM. So, in order to perform a backup with dump, i must use floppies... I used the kern and mfsroot floppies in order to boot and run the sysinstall program. Then I chooosed fixit from the menu and i inserted the fixit floppy. Then I came into the following situation: 1) Fixit floppy does not contain the dump program. 2) Fixit floppy is more than full, df gives: /dev/fd0 1363 1305 -51 104% /mnt 3) After removing view and ex, df again gives: /dev/fd0 1363 1305 -51 104% /mnt and dump cannot be added. 4) All files (exept dirs) in the fixit floppy have the same size of 1215072 bytes. The original sizes are: dump: 331452, view: 279876, ex: 279876 5) Fixit floppy cannot be unmounted (So that I can use an other floppy) 6) The kern floppy is also super-full, but files in it have arbitrary sizes. df gives: /dev/fd0 1407 1353 -58 105% /mnt My questions are: - Is it OK for a floppy to be more than 100% full? - Can I add or remove files on the fixit floppy and how? - Can I unmount the fixit floppy somehow, when i am in the fixit shell? - Is there an easier/better way to do some/all of the above? - Does anybody know a way to exclude a directory when using dump to backup a filesystem. I didnt found anything helpfull in the man pages. If some of the above questions are cuvered somewere, please give me a pointer. Thanks for your help. Jim Xochellis. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message