From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 03:00:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B739716A420 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:00:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500D43D45 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:00:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from eisenhower.ascendency.net ([67.173.128.145]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2006011803000101300dc219e>; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:00:01 +0000 Received: from Mike8500 (ipcop.localdomain [192.168.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by eisenhower.ascendency.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0I300xx053337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:00:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) From: "Mike Loiterman" To: Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:00:02 -0600 Message-ID: <000001c61bdb$475294e0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcYb20Z9ohIoEdl4RwmCIJ0eeL2bWw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (eisenhower.ascendency.net [192.168.1.22]); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:00:00 -0600 (CST) Subject: USB removable drive as dump device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mike@ascendency.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:00:02 -0000 Using 6.0-RELEASE I'm trying to use a USB removable drive as a dump device. The device is recognized and working corectly: Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers Jan 17 18:12:55 eisenhower kernel: da0: 156334MB (320173056 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19929C) These are the commands I used to create the device: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1 # bsdlabel -Bw da0 auto # bsdlabel -e da0 # newfs -d0 /dev/da0a # mkdir -p /backup # vi /etc/fstab # added an entry for /dev/da0a # mount /backup The device mounts correctly and I can write to /backup without problems. The issue is when I try to dump to the device: # dump 0uafL /dev/da0 / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 17 19:04:22 2006 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ar0s1a (/) to /dev/da0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 79952 tape blocks. DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/da0". DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") no DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. The same thing happens with: # dump 0uafL /backup / Any ideas? ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E