At 2002-04-02T01:46:18Z, Doug Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So for the non-rewinding tape device I put in /dev/nsa0, which seems to > make sense after reading the mt and sa man pages (I know, I shouldn't be > RTFM'ing before hand, but oh well ;). I've tried both /dev/nsa0 and > /dev/nrsa0 -- both failed! Actually, you'll want /dev/nrsa0. Otherwise, your tape will rewind between dumps, which is a Bad Thing. > # dump 0f /dev/nsa0 /etc > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Apr 1 17:27:47 2002 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /etc to /dev/nsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > Any suggestions? I've seen similar errors with subtly corrupted filesystems. Try fsck'ing the /etc volume and trying again. Note: I'm using FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE on my workstation, and I've had (within the week) filesystems with corruptions that caused dump to abort but that had no other apparent problems. -- Kirk Strauser
