Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 00:04:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Jaz Backups Redux Message-ID: <199812090504.AAA21823@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I've been looking through the mail archive for info on how to use a Jaz drive to run a backup. I have not found a clear answer there. In my reserch there, in the handbook, and in the man pages, I have a rough outline of what I want to do: Take the various file systems on my disk (/, /usr, and /var on /dev/wd0s2*) and dump(8) them to the Jaz drive (/dev/sd0s4). My partition on the IDE HD in which FreeBSD lives is about 1 GB, conveniently about the same size as a Jaz disk. All I have been able to do with a Jaz disk so far is mount one as a MSDOS filesystem. What steps do I need to take to prepare the disk (all Jaz disks I have access to are factory formated for MSDOS, the one I'll probably use is the old backup for my Winbloze95 partition)? Once I have the disk formatted properly, do I need to mount it as ufs? As a raw device? How to I get dump to take a file system (a slice of my IDE disk) and run it to the disk? I was trying out dump, and no matter what arguments I put in, it seemed to want to dump a completely different filesystem than I specified (/dev/rwd<something>). Someone in the -questions archive mentioned something called 'jazcontrol' more than once, but I have not been able to find reference to it in FreeBSD sources. Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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