Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@ftp1.mfn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etc/dumpdates and dump Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509125445.3051V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805090402.XAA00188@ftp1.mfn.org>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> Just a quickie...
>
> Dump is working well for our bulk backup needs, however, I noticed
> that even though ALL of our "dumps" are Level 0's, the date of the "last"
> full dump is *always* "the epoch". I have checked to make sure that
> /etc/dumpdates is in fact being created, and that it has the appropriate
> information in it (a single line for /dev/wd0a I think), and that ACLs are
> OK.
Make sure you're running dump with the u option.
> dump -0auf /dev/wt0 /
^ hm, well, there it is.
Check the fstab(5) man page -- there are some flags you have to set in
/etc/fstab to enable dump tracking. Also check perms on /etc/dumpdates.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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