Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:00:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net> To: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems dumping large fs's? Message-ID: <199507151200.HAA10917@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199507151120.EAA06605@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> from "Faried Nawaz" at Jul 15, 95 04:20:06 am
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Faried Nawaz wrote: > > i'm having problems dumping part of my /usr onto tape. > /usr is local, ufs, and on an 850mb ide drive. > >... > > if i try to dump /usr/local, i get > > big-brother# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/local > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 15 04:02:37 1995 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /usr/local to /dev/nrst0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > big-brother# > > is this a known problem? this is the first time i've tried dump, btw. > tar and pax appear to operate without problems on /usr. Dump can only operate on entire file systems. You have no /usr/local file system, so dump fails. If you want to make tape backups of only part of a file system, use something else like tar, cpio, pax, etc... I'll admit that the error message you get isn't the greatest. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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