From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 12:58:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20182 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19925 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03191; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "J.A. Terranson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etc/dumpdates and dump In-Reply-To: <199805090402.XAA00188@ftp1.mfn.org> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message