From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 0:23: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F47153D4 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA29751; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:22:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:22:51 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Mark Hartley Subject: RE: dumping an msdos filesystem Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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