From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 15:35:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E3E1B16A401 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AB343D45 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:35:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [80.192.2.135] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJY2H-0003GO-O0; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:35:41 +0000 Message-ID: <4418344D.8080003@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:35:41 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Tealdi References: <7.0.1.0.0.20060315131135.0327a978@polito.it> <441821AD.1080605@dial.pipex.com> <7.0.1.0.0.20060315153306.02165290@polito.it> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20060315153306.02165290@polito.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump level 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:35:44 -0000 Paolo Tealdi wrote: > At 14.16 15/03/2006 +0000, you wrote: > >> Paolo Tealdi wrote: >> >>> >>> Anybody has any idea ? >> >> Show us the output of the dump command which didn't work as you >> expected. Right when it starts it tells you what level of dump it is >> doing and when it thinks the last relevant dump was. This may not be >> the problem, but it's the best place to start! > > > anfitrione# dump 9SuLBf 1000000000 - /home > /backup/anfitrione/test.bck > DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Wed Mar 15 15:34:41 2006 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sat Mar 11 19:40:24 2006 > DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1g (/home) to standard output > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 57364771 tape blocks. > > S : does only an estimation of the tape blocks. > > /dev/da0s1g 91399912 57543202 32028712 64% /home Well, that does look like the whole disk, and the dates and levels of the dumps look right... What happens if you leave off the -L (but still doing just an estimate)? (You shouldn't need the redirection as nothing is actually dumped with -S). What does ls -lsak /home show? If that's just a small number of users, then "ls -lsak /home/*". Is it conceivable that you have some process running which is actually touching all the files in /home? --Alex