On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:55:44AM +0100, Alvaro Rosales enlightened us:
> I am using Freebsd, and I am trying to backup a directoy inside my
> filesystem /home , I am using the filesystem of Freebsd

Ah, ok. If you are trying to back up a subdirectory, you must use tar, not
dump. Some versions of dump will allow you to do level 0 backups of
subdirectories, but it looks like FreeBSD may not...perhaps someone who
knows that OS better than I can answer that. 

Matt

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