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Date:      Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark Turrin <mlt@linkzone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape Backups
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980103165642.27831I-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980101182550.652F-100000@argon.linkzone.com>

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On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Mark Turrin wrote:

> Hello Doug,
> 
> I want to thank you for the suggestion and report back on my successes.
> Apparently it did want the f option as it would not work when I removed
> it.  Here is the script command that worked:
> 
> /sbin/rdump 0cfua slugo:/dev/rmt0.1 /dev/sd0a            # /

Duh.  You must have the f option; it specifies the destination device.  

> Now is it correct that I could replace ``/dev/sd0a'' with the ``/'' (the
> real mount point of the partition) and it will still work?

Don't bet on it.  I don't know if dump knows to resolve filesystems using
/etc/fstab or not.

> > > rdump -0cfus slugo:/dev/rmt0.1 2200000 /dev/sd0s1e      # /home
> > > rdump -0cfus slugo:/dev/rmt0.1 2200000 /dev/sd0s1g      # /usr
> > > rdump -0cfus slugo:/dev/rmt0.1 2200000 /dev/sd0s1h      # /var
> > 
> > Oops, no dash.
> 
> Oh OK.  Gee that's what I love about Unix.  All commands use dashes except
> one.  gotta love it. :-P

If you didn't group them it would probably be OK.

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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