From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 20 5:24: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from destiny.erols.com (destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5210A14EC7 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 05:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdowdal@destiny.erols.com) Received: from destiny.erols.com (someone@destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by destiny.erols.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA56920; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:23:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:23:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Dowdal To: gawel Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does rdump write the backup to an ordinary file? In-Reply-To: <37E6195D.5987C619@free.polbox.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes; on the destination machine, do a "touch /tmp/var.dump" to create the file before running the backup. On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, gawel wrote: > Hello, > #rdump -0af backup:/tmp/var.dump /var > DUMP: Connection to backup established. > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Sep 20 11:23:41 1999 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rda0s1e (/var) to /tmp/var.dump on host backup > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 3498 tape blocks. > DUMP: /tmp/var.dump: No such file or directory > DUMP: Cannot open output "/tmp/var.dump". > DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") > Is it possible to make rdump to write the backup to an ordinary file on > remote host? > > Gawel > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message