From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 3: 6:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED80F37B406 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA21661; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:14:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3B77A6FB.3040209@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:07:55 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Todd Reed Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making Compressed Backups References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Todd Reed wrote: > I've got a tape drive and I can backup my drive using "tar cv > /dev/nrsa0 /", but, I'm wanting to compress it. When I try "dump -0u > -f /dev/nrsa0 /", I get an error message saying DUMP: bad sblock > magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. You sure this drive is FFS? Dump can only backup Berkeley Fast File System drives. If it's, say, MS-Dumb, use gnu tar instead. > What is the best way to backup the entire system to a tape with > compression? man mt tells how to enable compression on your tape drive. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message