Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 07:53:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump aborts; backsup device size issue? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406020750100.8026@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com> References: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com>
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Robert Huff wrote: > I have an external hard drive connected by eSATA; it looks like this: > > used free > /dev/gpt/backup 451G 10G 405G 3% /backup > > However, when running dump this morning I got: > > /backup clean > Disk mounted > Using /backup/Mon > Dumping to /backup/Mon/root > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 2 01:59:03 2014 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/gpt/root (/) to 2014.Jun.2.root.dump > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: Cache 32 MB, blocksize = 65536 > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 1067897 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: End of tape detected > DUMP: Closing 2014.Jun.2.root.dump > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > (System = > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r264673: Sat Apr 19 09:43:10 EDT 2014 amd64 > ) > So ... trying to dump < 2 gybtes onto 405 free and "end of tape"? > I'm confused. > (I could reformat the disk, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.) Please show the dump command options used. In particular, do you have -a?
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