From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 16: 5:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0288837B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.141.241.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.141.241] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TAun-0007Yx-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:05:29 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0N048M83039; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:03:45 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: bind9 Cc: Bob Hall , FreeBSD Subject: Re: The tower of Hanoi Message-ID: <20020122160345.I77330@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20020122065612.H77330@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bind9@citystamp.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:58:50AM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message