Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:56:39 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unrelated: mountpoints and backup strategies Message-ID: <20000914125639.A7819@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000913222743.O69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:27:43PM -0700 References: <20000911145420.B69890@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000911231140.F69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000914040207.A3311@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000913222743.O69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:27:43PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: | On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:02:07AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | > | # dump -ua0f /zip/root.0.dmp / | > | > I read the manpage, and this looks great, esp the incremental update | > feature. However, when I tried it myself after mounting the zip drive to | > /mnt, I got this: | > DUMP: bad sblock magic number | > | > and then it aborted. The man page gave no clues. | | Was the filesystem argument, _really_ a filesystem? Bet you tried to | start the dump at a directory. Ah, I finally discovered that caveat. Too bad, the incremental backup concept had me intrigued. Oh, well. I went back to tar and it did surprisingly well. I'll stick with that. Now I'll just have an excuse for learning shell scripting and perl to make the incremental function work. jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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