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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:13:32 -0700
From:      Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with dump stalling
Message-ID:  <20081008181332.GE32260@0lsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081008170141.34C264500F@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20081008085412.GA71654@icarus.home.lan> <20081008170141.34C264500F@ptavv.es.net>

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On Oct 08, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I had a system that was showing these exact symptoms David described. It
> did this both with -L and without. I went for about 3 months without a
> successful dump. I did at least two full system re-installs to no avail.
> Then, about 3 weeks ago, when I was about to start some serious
> debugging, it started working again. Nothing was touched between the last
> failure and the first success. I'm completely baffled!

I had a lengthy discussion with Jeremy about this where he lowered the boom
on my expectations with UFS2 and dump.  I find the lack of a real
incremental backup solution with the default filesystem in FreeBSD to be an
alarming problem.

Thanks,

-Clint

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