Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 01:49:04 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: ict technician <ict@cardinalnewman.coventry.sch.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: broken fs dump file Message-ID: <200410010149.04790.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200409300945.15068.ict@cardinalnewman.coventry.sch.uk> References: <200409300945.15068.ict@cardinalnewman.coventry.sch.uk>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:15 pm, ict technician wrote: > I have a broken fs dump I need to fix. Is there a diagnostic/repair tool I > can use? I know about restore -N. > > <No I didn't verify, and yes that was a mistake> > > Dump was taken on 4.10. Restoring on 5.3BETA, although I can change that. > A question rather than an answer:---- Is it valid to dump a ufs file system and try to restore it to a ufs2 system? Malcolm > Content is our Samba server home directories. I need to extract the data so > that I can copy it to our new 2k3 server. File is big (50Gb). A full > listing looks okay but the extract fails, apparently while skipping. > > supplementary question: How do I compile restore for debugging. I cannot > find 'the magic'. > > Thanks
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