From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 13 22:27:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C788537B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:26:39 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8E5Rh483777; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:27:43 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unrelated: mountpoints and backup strategies Message-ID: <20000913222743.O69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000911145420.B69890@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000911231140.F69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000914040207.A3311@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000914040207.A3311@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:02:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:02:07AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > | # dump -ua0f /zip/root.0.dmp / > > I read the manpage, and this looks great, esp the incremental update > feature. However, when I tried it myself after mounting the zip drive to > /mnt, I got this: > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > and then it aborted. The man page gave no clues. Was the filesystem argument, _really_ a filesystem? Bet you tried to start the dump at a directory. By the way, I don't think I have my jazdump scripts. I couldn't find them. Just automatically handled the mount, dumps, and checked fdisk and disklabel for changes. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message