From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 23:23:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D02F37B407 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acm.org (bgp966828bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net [68.41.109.203]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.6 (built Apr 26 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GVO00MU14JYEH@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 05 May 2002 22:35:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:35:44 -0400 From: Len Zettel Subject: using dump To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3CD5EC00.25D0C2@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not like I really know what I am doing or anything--- My first priority in setting up FreeBSD 4.5 was to get my printer going well enough that I could get hard copy of things like file listings and man pages. That is going satisfactorily. Next priority is system backup. Per the handbook I am trying to use dump, but not to tape - I don't have a decent tape drive. However, I *do* have my system set up with mounting frames so that I can freely swap hard drives. Figure that ought to do reasonably well. (Anybody got any pointers/experience on hot swapping hard drives under FreeBSD?) At the moment my system is on a 6 GB hard drive. I seem to have succeeded in formatting a 40 GB hard drive as the slave on the same controller. So we do mount /dev/ad1s1e /mnt and it's there. Then we do dump -0u -f /mnt/usr/backup0 /usr and get DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun May 5 21:52:36 2002 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad0s1g (/usr) to mnt/usr/backup0 DUMP: mapping (Pass 1)[regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 746212 tape blocks on 19.16 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: Closing /mnt/usr/backup DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go? ("yes" or "no") no DUMP: Do you want to abort? ("yes" or "no") yes DUMP: THe ENTIRE dump is aborted. then ls -l /mnt/usr -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 39260160 May 5 21:53 backup 0 So: How far did I get? What is a good way to check what is or is not in backup0? What should I be doing to get the backup I want (preferably without novice-confusing error messages)? Should I be doing something else entirely? Any advice would be appreciated. -LenZ- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message