From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 16:36:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4099937B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B9E43EA9 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 448E25190A; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:06:04 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:06:04 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Cc: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB Message-ID: <20021126003604.GA88412@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021125102736.B42991-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 13:41:58 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >>> ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr >>> partition. >>> >>> Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe >> dump to split >>> or something then reverse the process with restore later? >>> >>> Working with what will be approximately a 6GB L0 dump so over 3x the size >>> limitation. >>> >>> examples or suggestions appreciated >>> >>> Dave >> >> Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! >> ;) >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5191390944 Nov 17 06:02 babelfish_data.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35176571 Nov 25 04:06 babelfish_data_1.gz >> >> Any idea what I'm doing wrong (or right)? Using dump on 4.7-RELEASE. /dumpa/echunga/0: total 49181 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3064671274 Oct 1 22:30 home.0.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3101933139 Nov 1 22:35 home.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2178751713 Oct 1 21:59 root.0.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2205600361 Nov 1 22:00 root.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 18064320502 Oct 2 03:36 src.0.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 22947456192 Nov 2 04:56 src.gz Looks much the same to me. > Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and > selected port upgrades only... I didn't think there was any change in behaviour during this time. > Assumption from responses being upgrading to a more recent stable > version is required to eliminate the problem? I think it would be better if you showed more detail about what you've done and what happened. Of course, if you want to upgrade to 4.7 anyway, that might be instructive, but don't expect it to fix your problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message