From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 7:59:28 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 7A6D437B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:59:25 -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 JAA06033; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Cary To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dump is giving me errors In-Reply-To: <3B0E716B.65A35D10@iowna.com> 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 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message