Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
> 
>>Lukas Ertl wrote:
>>
>>>The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with
>>>mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump
>>>source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it).
>>
>>Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have
>>just greatly reduced the points of failure.
> 
> 
> Please ignore my ignorance, but how can I dump(8) from a file?

Create an md device out of it, and backup that.

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