Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@ftp1.mfn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etc/dumpdates and dump Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509125445.3051V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805090402.XAA00188@ftp1.mfn.org>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Just a quickie... > > Dump is working well for our bulk backup needs, however, I noticed > that even though ALL of our "dumps" are Level 0's, the date of the "last" > full dump is *always* "the epoch". I have checked to make sure that > /etc/dumpdates is in fact being created, and that it has the appropriate > information in it (a single line for /dev/wd0a I think), and that ACLs are > OK. Make sure you're running dump with the u option. > dump -0auf /dev/wt0 / ^ hm, well, there it is. Check the fstab(5) man page -- there are some flags you have to set in /etc/fstab to enable dump tracking. Also check perms on /etc/dumpdates. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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