Subject: Re: dump - still have a problem
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/24/2001 13:57:18
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:04:34PM +0100, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 24.02.01, 08:26:34, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > > 	<wojtek@wojtek.from.pl> wrote:
> > > > whats going wrong?!
> > > > 
> > > > dump -h 0 -0 -B 5000000 -k 64 -L "root-backup" -u /
> > > Specify raw device file instead of root directory.
> > but then i need to shutdown! i want dumping while working
> 
> Why would you have to? Dump only reads from a file system; to quote from
> init(8):

Your statement is false.  Dump reads from the raw device no matter how
you run it.

Thor