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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2? - dump and a "print screen" thingy Date: 2 Jun 1996 20:48:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4osumm$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ACDD3D.5A27@ainet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Dale Phillips <dphillip@ainet.com> wrote: > Dump and Restore seem to do the job but from what the man page > says - it is supposed to back up all file systems (by reading > the fstab file) > ie dump 0 / backs up only /dev/rsda1 but not /usr or /var etc... That's how it is supposed to be. Each run of `dump' dumps just one filesystem. fstab is only referenced in case you're specifying a mounted resource (e.g. "/") instead of a raw device name (e.g. "/dev/rsda1") to translate them. Ah, well, i guess what has been confusing you: the -w and -W options. Yep, they indeed read the entire fstab file, and compare it against the dates of the last dumps taken via /etc/dumpdates. But that's no action, only informational output. It's usually done nightly as part of the /etc/daily cron job, and mailed to the system administrator, in order to remind him if the dumps that are due. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)