Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:44:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems dumping large fs's? Message-ID: <199507160844.KAA22905@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199507151120.EAA06605@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> from "Faried Nawaz" at Jul 15, 95 04:20:06 am
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> if i try to dump /usr/local, i get
>
> big-brother# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/local
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 15 04:02:37 1995
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /usr/local to /dev/nrst0
> DUMP: bad sblock magic number
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> big-brother#
>
> is this a known problem? this is the first time i've tried dump, btw.
> tar and pax appear to operate without problems on /usr.
It is not a bug it is a feature :-)
dump can only dump full filesystems, not subtree of it. Your physical
partition is /usr so you should dump /usr. /usr/local is not a valid file-
system so it has no superblock.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995
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