Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:12:37 -0700 From: "Elliot Finley" <lists@efinley.com> To: "Barry Pederson" <bp@barryp.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work Message-ID: <021401c3f1bd$b557f7e0$32cba1cd@science1> References: <01af01c3f1b7$06fba490$32cba1cd@science1> <402C0028.3050409@barryp.org>
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That worked, thanks! the thing that threw me was that I had two systems running 5.1. dump was working fine on both of them. Then I upgraded both to 5.2.1 and one of them still worked and the other didn't. Elliot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Pederson" <bp@barryp.org> To: "Elliot Finley" <lists@efinley.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: Re: creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work > 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 > >
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