From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 13:58:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charon.shaghaus.org (209-6-187-126.c6-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.187.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E94D14EF3 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Received: from router (IDENT:bunicula@router [192.168.2.1]) by charon.shaghaus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09742; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:02:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson X-Sender: bunicula@charon.diabolis.net To: Mark Hartley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumping an msdos filesystem In-Reply-To: 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 I was under the impression that dump reads UFS directly, rahter than going through the normal process to access data that mv/cp/etc would use. If I'm correct, that would mean dump could only work on UFS partitions. I'm not very experienced in FreeBSD, so I could be wrong though... Brian On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mark Hartley wrote: > I use dump to back up my hard drive, and it works well, except that I > am unable to get it to back up the msdos filesystem (Win95 - FAT 16) > that is also on the hard drive. > > When I try to do the dump command: > > dump -0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /dosc > > I get the error: > > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0s1 (/dosc) to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > and then it dies. > > > Is there a switch, or something I can use to enable backing up my > msdos partition? I've looked in the dump manpages, and searched the > mailing list, but I've found nothing. > > > I can access the drive using the /dosc mountpoint to copy/move/delete > files, so I know the partition is mounted properly. > > > Thanks. > > Mark. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message