Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump is giving me errors Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105250953020.5911-100000@babel.acu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3B0E716B.65A35D10@iowna.com>
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Thanks Bill. Now it makes sense to me why / would dump and /usr/home/cary would not. I'll use tar then. Thanks again. Cary Mathews Abilene Christian University ACM Chair | Education Committee [snip what Cary originaly wrote...] On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > What's your partition layout? dump(8) can only dump "filesystems" (i.e. > entire partitions) If /usr/home/cary isn't a seperate partition, you'll > get that error. If you just want to back up just part of a partition, > tar(1) is probably a better choice. (it even provides compression) > tar czf /usr/home/cary.tgz /usr/home/cary > Or dump(8) the entire partition. (use df(1) to see your partition > layout, or mount(8)) > > -Bill > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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