Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:22:51 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Mark Hartley <mark@whetstonelogic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dumping an msdos filesystem Message-ID: <XFMail.991221092251.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991220134730.mark@whetstonelogic.com>
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On 20-Dec-99 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. Dump only dumps ufs:( You'll have to use tar for MS_DOS-partitions. But that does not render the backups bootable as the dump is claimed to do. It more works like a giant copy of the files. > > I can access the drive using the /dosc mountpoint to copy/move/delete > files, so I know the partition is mounted properly. That's good here, but for dump the mount is not necessary. > > Thanks. > > Mark. /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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