From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 3 16:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15832 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15825 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:58:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA27901; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:58:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:58:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Turrin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Backups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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