From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 9:20: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc04.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc04.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0814D12 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from preeper@cts.com) Received: from sgt361.cts.com ([204.212.158.91]) by mtiwmhc04.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with SMTP id <19990322171943.EWCH22704@sgt361.cts.com> for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:19:43 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990322091822.03e9da70@crash.cts.com> X-Sender: preeper@crash.cts.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:18:22 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jerry Preeper Subject: mirrordir question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am using mirrordir to make a duplicate copy of one hard drive on the system to another for backup purpose and just recently had some modifications made to the kernel. Now I get the following message in the output from my cron backup job: mirrordir: unable to open file for writing: /mnt/kernel: Operation not permitted The basic command I have in my backup script if the following: /usr/local/bin/mirrordir --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt / /mnt The only other thing I really do in the script is to cancel the backup job if the source files are less than 95% in size than what's on the backup (which I can override if I want). Anyone have any ideas what I might need to do fix this. I would like the script to backup the kernel as well automatically. Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message