On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 11:52am, bao wrote

> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> 
> /-- barracuda  /junk lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]
> sendbackup: start [barracuda:/junk level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> |   DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

You can't use dump to backup anything that isn't a filesystem.  You have 
to use tar here.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University