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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:32:21 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails
Message-ID:  <20070627153221.1a2cce90@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20070626060948.GA20203@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20070625174045.GA31486@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070625224507.da4e62c2.ota@j.email.ne.jp> <20070626060948.GA20203@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
> > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output.
> > 
> > I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre,
> > too.  I never had problems with dump/restore.
> > 
> > My disk also failed recently with very similer messages.
> > 
> 
> The weird thing is, when I use the USB disk without encryption, it works
> fine.

what happens if you dump your GELI partition first, and then the others?

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