From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 7:43:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babel.acu.edu (babel.acu.edu [150.252.167.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD5137B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scattered@babel.acu.edu) Received: from localhost (scattered@localhost) by babel.acu.edu (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05874 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:39:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:39:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Cary To: freebsd-questions Subject: dump is giving me errors Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I'm attempting to back up my home directory with dump, but I keep getting the same error: # /sbin/dump -0u -f /usr/home/dump /usr/home/cary DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri May 25 09:35:21 2001 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /usr/home/cary to /usr/home/dump DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. # /usr/home/dump is a file (though I have also tried dumping to a dir). I was able to start dumping the / filesystem to standard output as a test, and it worked. But no matter what options I've tried, I get the same error as above. I've read the man page, but I don't know enough to know what applies and doesn't apply when dumping to a HD or filesystem rather than a tape drive. Any help that could be rendered would be appreciated. Thank you. Cary Mathews Abilene Christian University ACM Chair | Education Committee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message