Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:23:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com> To: gawel <svga@free.polbox.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does rdump write the backup to an ordinary file? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909200822400.44787-100000@destiny.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <37E6195D.5987C619@free.polbox.pl>
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Yes; on the destination machine, do a "touch /tmp/var.dump" to create the
file before running the backup.
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, gawel wrote:
> Hello,
> #rdump -0af backup:/tmp/var.dump /var
> DUMP: Connection to backup established.
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Sep 20 11:23:41 1999
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/rda0s1e (/var) to /tmp/var.dump on host backup
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 3498 tape blocks.
> DUMP: /tmp/var.dump: No such file or directory
> DUMP: Cannot open output "/tmp/var.dump".
> DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no")
> Is it possible to make rdump to write the backup to an ordinary file on
> remote host?
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