creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work

[Elliot Finley]

That worked, thanks!

the thing that threw me was that I had two systems running 5.1.  dump was
working fine on both of them.  Then I upgraded both to 5.2.1 and one of them
still worked and the other didn't.

Elliot
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Pederson" <bp at barryp.org>
To: "Elliot Finley" <lists at efinley.com>
Cc: <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: creating a snapshot with 5.2.1 RC2 doesn't work


> Elliot Finley wrote:
>
> > RELENG_5_2 as of Feb 11, 8:00PM MST
> >
> > When I issue the command:
> >
> > dump -0Lauf - / > /nfsmounted/dest/dir/filename
> >
> > I get the following output:
> >
> > mksnap_ffs: //.snap: No such file or directory
> > dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory
>
> The man page for dump says you need to create the directory by hand if it
> doesn't already exist:
>
>       If the .snap
>       directory does not exist in the root of the filesystem being
>       dumped, the dump will fail.  This problem can be corrected by
>       creating a .snap directory in the root of the filesystem to be
>       dumped; its owner should be root, its group should be operator,
>       and its mode should be 0770.
>
> Barry
>
>