On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:46:57 +0300, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terie...@gmail.com> wrote: > only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't have > any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob) > > i give as a root the command "dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a" > > but i receive the following error: > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 01:39:31 2010 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s3a (/) to /mnt/hd/FBSD/ > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 6843871 tape blocks. > DUMP: Cannot open output "/mnt/hd/FBSD/". > DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") > > i tried to reopen the output but it had no effect.
The answer is right here: DUMP: Cannot open output "/mnt/hd/FBSD/". You need to specify a file, not a directory. For example, you can use this command: # dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ad0s3a.dump /dev/ad0s3a You just have to make sure that there's enough space for the dump file on the device mounted as /mnt/hd. > P.S.:ad0s3a is my root directory (/) Then you have all subtrees on your / partition (like /var, /usr). Correctly, this is what you want to dump. > s3b is /home and If you don't need it, don't dump it. :-) Anyway, if its nearly empty, you won't need much space for the dumpfile. > s3d is my swap space Partition d is the swap? It's usually b, but... possible. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"