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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dump is giving me errors
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105250953020.5911-100000@babel.acu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3B0E716B.65A35D10@iowna.com>

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Thanks Bill.  Now it makes sense to me why / would dump and /usr/home/cary
would not. I'll use tar then.  Thanks again.

Cary Mathews

Abilene Christian University
ACM Chair
| Education Committee

[snip what Cary originaly wrote...]
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> What's your partition layout? dump(8) can only dump "filesystems" (i.e.
> entire partitions) If /usr/home/cary isn't a seperate partition, you'll
> get that error. If you just want to back up just part of a partition,
> tar(1) is probably a better choice. (it even provides compression)
> tar czf /usr/home/cary.tgz /usr/home/cary
> Or dump(8) the entire partition. (use df(1) to see your partition
> layout, or mount(8))
> 
> -Bill
> 


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