From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 13:43:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infoviaplus.net.ar (adv19.infoviaplus.net.ar [200.9.212.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D418237B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infovia.com.ar ([209.13.247.105]) by infoviaplus.net.ar (Tid InfoMail Exchanger v2.20) with SMTP id #967754623.065610001; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:43:43 -0300 Message-ID: <39AEC3FE.9CCAC8E5@infovia.com.ar> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:45:50 -0300 From: Ignacio Zelaya X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: DUMP problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Infomail-Id: 967754623.19A101AC1E03A0.14623 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to bakup some files and dump returns: newimage is a file whith a FreeBsd file system i make: vnconfig /dev/vn0 newimage then: my_host:/home/ignacio/test# dump -0 -f /dev/vn0c /home/ignacio/test/read/ DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Aug 31 17:00:19 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /home/ignacio/test/read/ to /dev/vn0c >>> DUMP: bad sblock magic number <<< DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. what is bad sblock magic number? then i tried: mount /dev/vn0c /mnt my_host:/home/ignacio/test# dump -0 -f /mnt /home/ignacio/test/read/ DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Aug 31 17:02:23 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /home/ignacio/test/read/ to /mnt >>> DUMP: bad sblock magic number <<< DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. sure i'm making something wrong, and the man page of dump isn't the beter help. -- Ignacio Zelaya To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message