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Date:      Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:44:42 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dump
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0911210844q33c97a7dh4582f670cfaa7a28@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B075AAA.80205@bah.homeip.net>
References:  <4B0562A4.5050405@bah.homeip.net> <4B056636.6050309@infracaninophile.co.uk>  <4B075AAA.80205@bah.homeip.net>

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2009/11/21 Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>:
> Matthew Seaman skrev:
>>
>> Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello list.
>>>
>>> I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT
>>> -L does not work. For example
>>>
>>> dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d
>>
>> I believe that you need to tell dump the mount point of the file system =
in
>> order for it to create a snapshot, rather than the device file for the
>> partition. (ie. snapshotting only makes sense on a mounted read-write
>> filesystem).
>>
>> Also, if you're dumping a snapshotted FS to a local file, then bump up t=
he
>> cachesize to improve performance a lot. =A0Add '-C 32' to your command-l=
ine.
>
> Ok. I've tested this
> dump -1 -a -u -L -C 64 -h 0 -f /usr/home/bernt/disk2/dump.backup.home.2
> /usr/home
>
> The error is
> mksnap_ffs: Cannot create /usr/home/.snap/dump_snapshot: Invalid argument
> dump: Cannot create /usr/home/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or direct=
ory
>

Just for sanity... Are you root?

Chris

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