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From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape Backup help
Date: 10 Oct 1996 13:28:52 GMT
Organization: not this decade...
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Message-ID: <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk>
References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
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In article <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca>,
William Boucher <william@datapark.com> wrote:
>DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Oct (blah blah)
>DUMP: Date of last (blah blah)
>DUMP: Dumping /home to /dev/erst0
>DUMP: bad sblock magic number
>DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
Maybe way off base here, but are you sure /home is a partition and not just
a directory?
This "bad sblock" appears when you try to dump something which isn't in your
fstab. It's both confusing and annoying when you're trying to dump a "spare"
or removable disk, since you have to temporarily put it into fstab.
Ian.
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