Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:46:22 -0300 (ADT) From: Andrew Wright <andrew@qemg.org> To: Marc Coyles <mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump snapshot issue... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905051044590.1577@qemg.org> In-Reply-To: <00d301c9cd65$62298910$267c9b30$@wakefield.sch.uk> References: <00d301c9cd65$62298910$267c9b30$@wakefield.sch.uk>
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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Marc Coyles wrote: > I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but > I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: > > /usr/bin/mt rewind > /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / > dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory You probably have not created the .snap directory in the root of the filesystem. >From the dump(8) man page: If the .snap directory does not exist in the root of the file system being dumped, a warning will be issued and the dump will revert to the standard behavior. This problem can be corrected by creating a .snap directory in the root of the file system to be dumped; its owner should be ``root'', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should be ``0770''. A.
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