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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 1997 22:38:30 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: backing up to tape
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971101223704.912A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971101154035.1316A-100000@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>

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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Bill Beavers wrote:

> I have tried to backup to my T4000s tape drive using the command
> 
> dump 0 /dev/st0

Should probably be something like:

dump -0 -f /dev/rst0 /usr

(to backup the /usr filesystem).

The argument to dump(8) is the name of the filesystem to dump, not the 
file to dump to.

> 
> but I get lots of data back ending with the dump being aborted.  What am 
> I doing wrong?  I have read the man page for dump, but still do not see 
> what I am missing.
> 
> 
> ........................................
> . Bill Beavers, Technology Coordinator .
> . Arch Ford Education Coop             .
> . bbeavers@moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us    .
> . http://moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us      .
> ........................................
> 
> 
Nadav



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