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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 05:35:16 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Jacob Rhoden <jacob@vicyouth.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dump command - "Cannot open device /dev/ad3s1"
Message-ID:  <15288.18148.10369.850683@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <115801870@toto.iv>

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Jacob Rhoden <jacob@vicyouth.com> types:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having troubles with dump, I have read the man pages, and the handbook 
> doesn't seem to have much to say either. I am running FreeBSD 4.4 Stable.
> 
> This is what is happening:
>    server> dump -0au -f /dev/sa0 /var
>      DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Oct  1 07:50:22 2001
>      DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>      DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad3s1 (/var) to /dev/sa0
>      DUMP: Cannot open /dev/ad3s1

Are you by any chance running the command as someone other than root?

	<mike
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