From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 15:12:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090EF16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunderbird.etv.net (thunderbird.etv.net [208.14.190.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B0443D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@efinley.com) Received: from [205.161.203.50] (helo=science1) by thunderbird.etv.net with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1ArQ0e-000FN8-4m; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:12:40 -0700 Message-ID: <021401c3f1bd$b557f7e0$32cba1cd@science1> From: "Elliot Finley" To: "Barry Pederson" References: <01af01c3f1b7$06fba490$32cba1cd@science1> <402C0028.3050409@barryp.org> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:12:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Elliot Finley List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:12:41 -0000 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" To: "Elliot Finley" Cc: 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 > >