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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: problem with 8mm exebyte and backing up a full drive
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.042044.19911@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 04:20:44 GMT
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- pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman) writes:
-
- >I want to use the dump command to backup a full volume instead
- >of just each partition. I thought that you could talk about
- >the whole partition by using the name of the drive (ex: sd0) and
- >the c slice. But this doesn't work. It just seems to backup
- >the first partition of the drive. Here is the command I use:
-
- >/etc/dump 0ubdsf 126 540000 6000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd0c
-
- >This will backup only the root partion instead of the whole
- >volume.
-
-
- >This is how the man page lists the procedure:
-
- >To make a full backup of the entire disk sd3, on a 2.3-GByte
- > 8mm tape st2, use:
- >
- > dump 0dsbfu 54000 6000 126 /dev/rst2 /dev/sd3c
-
-
-
- >What am I doing wrong?
-
- Nothing. It's just that the man page could be a bit clearer.
-
- Dump will always back up only one filesystems. Use dd if
- you want an *image copy* of the whole disk.
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