From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 20:16: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272A214CAA for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:15:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04010; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:15:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:15:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jim Manley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 'dump' Message-ID: <19991021221544.A3829@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.1.19991021220124.0097a2e0@mail.metronet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991021220124.0097a2e0@mail.metronet.com>; from jmanley@metronet.com on Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:13:16PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 21), Jim Manley said: > I am having a problem with the 'dump' command. Here's an example output: > > darkstar# dump -0u -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr/src > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Oct 21 21:58:18 1999 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /usr/src to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > darkstar# Dump works on entire fileystems, not subdirectories or individual files. Give it the path to a mountpoint, or give it the raw devicename of the filesystem you want dumped. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message