From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 15 05:00:38 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA18137 for current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 05:00:38 -0700 Received: from mpp.minn.net (mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA18127 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 05:00:34 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA10917; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:00:24 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199507151200.HAA10917@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: problems dumping large fs's? To: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:00:24 -0500 (CDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507151120.EAA06605@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> from "Faried Nawaz" at Jul 15, 95 04:20:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 980 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Faried Nawaz wrote: > > i'm having problems dumping part of my /usr onto tape. > /usr is local, ufs, and on an 850mb ide drive. > >... > > if i try to dump /usr/local, i get > > big-brother# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/local > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 15 04:02:37 1995 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /usr/local to /dev/nrst0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > big-brother# > > is this a known problem? this is the first time i've tried dump, btw. > tar and pax appear to operate without problems on /usr. Dump can only operate on entire file systems. You have no /usr/local file system, so dump fails. If you want to make tape backups of only part of a file system, use something else like tar, cpio, pax, etc... I'll admit that the error message you get isn't the greatest. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"