On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:55:44AM +0100, Alvaro Rosales enlightened us: > I am using Freebsd, and I am trying to backup a directoy inside my > filesystem /home , I am using the filesystem of Freebsd
Ah, ok. If you are trying to back up a subdirectory, you must use tar, not dump. Some versions of dump will allow you to do level 0 backups of subdirectories, but it looks like FreeBSD may not...perhaps someone who knows that OS better than I can answer that. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
