From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 12:37:13 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 65CE116A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:37:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51F443D46 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:37:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 19171 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2006 23:37:12 +1100 Received: from 203-214-154-44.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.214.154.44) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 18 Jan 2006 23:37:12 +1100 Message-ID: <43CE3671.2090903@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:37:05 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@ascendency.net References: <000001c61bdb$475294e0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> In-Reply-To: <000001c61bdb$475294e0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB removable drive as dump device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:37:13 -0000 Mike Loiterman wrote: > Using 6.0-RELEASE > > I'm trying to use a USB removable drive as a dump device. [...] > > The issue is when I try to dump to the device: > # dump 0uafL /dev/da0 / I think this is telling dump to treat /dev/da0 as a normal file, which it isn't. it makes sense to say /dev/[your_tape_device] , as you don't dump to a file in the tape, but rather to the tape itself (AFAIK) > > The same thing happens with: > # dump 0uafL /backup / try something like dump 0uafL /backup/`date +%Y%m%H`-0.dump / Beto