Subject: dumping ntfs
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/23/2002 12:21:11
Trying to save user files off a shafted nt terminal server, I thought I would
try

mount -t ntfs /dev/sd0g /nthome
mount -t msdos /dev/sd1e /dos
cat>/etc/fstab
/dev/sd0g /nthome ntfs ro 0 0
/dev/sd1e /dos msdos rw 0 0
[eof]
mkdir /dos/nthome
cd /dos/nthome
dump -0f - /nthome | restore -xf -

but now I get

DUMP: Cannot open /dev/sd0g
Type is not a dump tape

?

I'm pretty sure this works for ffs partitions.. Does the fact that those
disks don't have an on disk disklabels matter? (disks are mounted, I wrote the
dump binary to /dos, and can read /nthome) ... ah - maybe dump only makes
sense for ffs? (It dumps inodes?)

Cheers,

Patrick