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Subject: Re: creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work
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Elliot Finley wrote:

> RELENG_5_2 as of Feb 11, 8:00PM MST
> 
> When I issue the command:
> 
> dump -0Lauf - / > /nfsmounted/dest/dir/filename
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> mksnap_ffs: //.snap: No such file or directory
> dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory

The man page for dump says you need to create the directory by hand if it 
doesn't already exist:

      If the .snap
      directory does not exist in the root of the filesystem being
      dumped, the dump will fail.  This problem can be corrected by
      creating a .snap directory in the root of the filesystem to be
      dumped; its owner should be root, its group should be operator,
      and its mode should be 0770.

	Barry