Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT) From: c/o Peter Gatsoulis <kjerstes@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: dumping entire ide laptop disk Message-ID: <20020812165411.9052.qmail@web9702.mail.yahoo.com>
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hello & pls Help .? In the past w/ help from this list's members the following has worked GREAT: (using FBSD 4.5 but works w/ all FBSD versions) dump -0 -f - /|bzip2 -c>/mnt/where-ever/foo.dump used this continuosly to backup filesystems, but NOW i have some laptop drives w/ mixed fs, ie: 1st partition can be MS DOS, 2nd partition can be NTFS, 3rd partition can be ufs w/ softupdates. i remove the drives and mount them in a desktop by using a 2.5"-3.5" IDE adapter, the desktop boots fine and reckognizes the new drive as ad3 i now try; dump 0f - /dev/ad3 |bzip2 -c>/somemountpoint/somefile i get, "bad sblock magic number" and entire dump aborts. reading the FBSD handbook, dump manpage and searching the archives leads me to believe that dump can indeed backup entire disks, irrespective of which fs is on disk??? i've tried specifying ad3s1, ad3s1a, rad3s1e etc, many variations of specifying device name BUT same results.. how can i use dump to "snap" the entire disk image? don't want to use dd in case i have to restore to another diffrent laptop & drive ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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