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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:03:45 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        bind9 <bind9@citystamp.com>
Cc:        Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: The tower of Hanoi
Message-ID:  <20020122160345.I77330@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <B8730479.2DB9%bind9@citystamp.com>; from bind9@citystamp.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:58:50AM -0500
References:  <20020122065612.H77330@blossom.cjclark.org> <B8730479.2DB9%bind9@citystamp.com>

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:58:50AM -0500, bind9 wrote:
> on 1/22/02 9:56 AM, Crist J . Clark at cristjc@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:44:05AM -0500, bind9 wrote:
> >> on 1/22/02 4:01 AM, Crist J . Clark at cjc@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:44:43PM -0500, Matthew P. Marino wrote:
> >>>> Well, this was in the output of a "dump" command that was trying to dump to
> >>>> an
> >>>> active atapi hard disk.
> >>>> 
> >>>> dump -f /web/backups/full-1-20-02 /usr/local
> >>> 
> >>> Bet you're trying to dump an MS-DOS filesystem.
> >> 
> >> GASP!!! 
> >> 
> >> I don't think so, fstab doesn't think so. But obviously there is something
> >> not good about that disk configuration. Must have configured wrong. I'll do
> >> the best I can with "tar". Thanks.
> > 
> > You'll also get that is you try to do something like dump a
> > directory. Is there a filesystem mounted at /usr/local?
> 
> Yes. Should I dump by disk i.e. /dev/adc1se??

You can, but that's not a vaild disk device name.

> Or, do I have source and
> destination backward;
> 
> dump -f destination source

Like dump(8) says,

     dump [-0123456789acknu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-D dumpdates]
          [-d density] [-f file] [-h level] [-s feet] [-T date] filesystem

-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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