Dump

[George Davidovich]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:12:42AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Matthew Seaman skrev:
> > Bernt Hansson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT
> > > -L does not work. For example
> > > 
> > > dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d
> > 
> > I believe that you need to tell dump the mount point of the file system in
> > order for it to create a snapshot, rather than the device file for the
> > partition. (ie. snapshotting only makes sense on a mounted read-write
> > filesystem).
> > 
> > Also, if you're dumping a snapshotted FS to a local file, then bump up the
> > cachesize to improve performance a lot.  Add '-C 32' to your command-line.
> 
> Ok. I've tested this
> dump -1 -a -u -L -C 64 -h 0 -f /usr/home/bernt/disk2/dump.backup.home.2 
> /usr/home
> dump -1 -a -u -L -C 64 -h 0 -f /usr/home/bernt/disk2/dump.backup.home.2 
> /usr/home
> 
> The error is
> mksnap_ffs: Cannot create /usr/home/.snap/dump_snapshot: Invalid argument
> dump: Cannot create /usr/home/.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory

Aargh.  Must have missed the above when I last replied.  That error
message indicates you're running dump without proper privileges.

Run dump as root, or add yourself to the operator group:

  pw groupmod operator -m bernt 

-- 
George