From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 2:41:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AA137B422 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-250.netcologne.de [213.168.64.250]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25966; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:41:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e819fiO00885; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:41:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:41:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Ignacio Zelaya Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: DUMP problem In-Reply-To: <39AEC3FE.9CCAC8E5@infovia.com.ar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ignacio Zelaya wrote: > I want to bakup some files and dump returns: > > newimage is a file whith a FreeBsd file system > i make: vnconfig /dev/vn0 newimage > > 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? if you want to dump /dev/vn0c then I think you have your arguments backwards. Try: dump -0 -f /home/ignacio/test/read/output.dump /dev/vn0c -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message