Re: ``ddump -W'' fails in /etc/daily

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

FWIW, the [*] tag was intended to lead to:

[*] The drive had a little help on the path to failure - my new
puppy pulled on the cable and the drive experienced a free-fall
of approximately 20 inches (0.5 meters).  It seemed to work for
a short while, but then totally locked up and won't even complete
the auto-conf discovery process.  :-(


On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab file:
>
> ...
> NAME=backups    /backup         ffs     rw,noauto
> ...
>
> This is for a removable USB drive which is used to store various
> backups (as suggested by the label!).  Most of the time, the drive
> is _not_connected_ - I only plug it in when I am actively doing a
> backup.
>
> Previously, the backup drive was labeled with disklabel(8), and
> the fstab entry specified ``/dev/sd0e''.  Everything was fine.
> But that old backup device failed [*] so I had to replaced it,
> and I decided to use gpt(8) labels instead.  Now, the daily job
> complains with the following message:
>
> Uptime:  3:15AM  up 2 days,  7:49, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>  DUMP: can't resolve mount point NAME=backups (no match for `backups'): 
> Nosuch process
>  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> This would seem to be generated by the following:
>
>        if [ -s /etc/dumpdates ] ; then
>                dump -W > $TMP2
>        fi
>
> This behavior seems sub-optimal to me!
>
> Should I submit a PR?
>
>
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