From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 09:43:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0E3106566B for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk) Received: from smtp2.yhgfl.net (smtp3.yhgfl.net [89.207.208.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AFD8FC19 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk) Received: from smtp2.yhgfl.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Email Security Appliance) with SMTP id 5BE991BC050B_A000966B for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:39:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3-wak.yhgfl.net (eca.yhgfl.net [89.207.208.91]) by smtp2.yhgfl.net (Sophos Email Appliance) with ESMTP id EEA201BC04F6_A000965F for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 09:39:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from horbury.wakefield.sch.uk ([10.126.96.34]) by smtp3-wak.yhgfl.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n459dfgh012830 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 10:39:42 +0100 Received: from ITTEAM02 [10.126.96.253] by horbury.wakefield.sch.uk with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A95256700AE; Tue, 05 May 2009 10:39:30 +0100 From: "Marc Coyles" To: Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:39:27 +0100 Message-ID: <00d301c9cd65$62298910$267c9b30$@wakefield.sch.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcnNZWIYSUmznJbdQiOQ2gAiZCkdXw== Content-Language: en-gb X-YHGfL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the YHGfL Foundation for more information X-YHGfL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-YHGfL-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 0.5) X-YHGfL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk Subject: Dump snapshot issue... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:43:20 -0000 I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: /usr/bin/mt rewind /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 /home mksnap_ffs: Cannot create /home/.snap/dump_snapshot: Input/output error dump: Cannot create /home/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 /tmp dump: Cannot create /tmp/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 /usr dump: Cannot create /usr/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 /var dump: Cannot create /var/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /usr/bin/mt rewind The .snap folders exist at all points, are set to root:operator, with perms 770... The dump_snapshot files seem to be present, albeit 0 bytes, root:operator, perms 400... Running 7.0-RELEASE-p11... Any suggestions? Marc A Coyles - Horbury School ICT Support Team Mbl: 07850 518106 Land: 01924 282740 ext 730 Helpdesk: 01924 282740 ext 2000