From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 20:12:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparenix.metronet.com (sparenix.metronet.com [207.170.106.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B62ED14CAA for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmanley@metronet.com) Received: (qmail 27014 invoked by uid 7770); 22 Oct 1999 03:31:02 -0000 Received: from fcn105-64.tmi.net (HELO win) (207.170.105.64) by sparenix.metronet.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 1999 03:31:02 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19991021220124.0097a2e0@mail.metronet.com> X-Sender: jmanley@mail.metronet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:13:16 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Manley Subject: Problems with 'dump' 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 having a problem with the 'dump' command. Here's an example output: darkstar# dump -0u -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr/src DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Oct 21 21:58:18 1999 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /usr/src to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. darkstar# Same thing happens if I try to dump to a file on the hard drive. System specs: AMD K5 166Mhz, 32MB RAM, SCSI HP 4mm DAT Tape Drive AHA-1542CP SCSI Host Adapter FBSD 3.3-Stable, cvsupped 10/20/99 I'd appreciate any help or suggestions anyone may have. Regards, Jim Manley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message