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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!ip 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... Lines: 21 Message-ID: <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: albatross.mcc.ac.uk 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. -- UNIX sysadmindroid, mail and news hacker, sentenced to a lifetime of slavery. Network Unit, Manchester Computing, The University, Manchester, England. {ip@mcc.ac.uk,ip@u-net.com} -- http://jumper.mcc.ac.uk/~ip/ Look before you leap; he who hesitates is lost.