Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:35:00 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no one here use restore/dump? Message-ID: <20060119103009.W11397@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <43CE837F.2000007@mac.com> References: <20060118122029.W51993@chylonia.3miasto.net> <43CE837F.2000007@mac.com>
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>> nobody here do backups of their systems? strange?! > > I backup and restore using those self-named tools on a variety of DLT and 4mm > DAT tape drives. 4mm DDS DAT kinda sucks, and they are super-sensitive to > being cleaned a lot. > i'm using DVD+RW discs. after doing dvd+rw-format for a first time, it could be used directly (as /dev/acd1) for dump but blocksize must be 32 and -B 4590208 must be entered. > Did you have a more specific question...? > yes - i did before. i have problems with restore. dump is about 60GB and 1.5 million files. two problems when doing restore -rvf /device 1) after extracting all directory listing it starts to do "Make node..." but after some of it done, it starts to take 100% CPU and work for about 1 hour on PII/400 before finishing it. eventually it finishes, so it's not such a big problem 2) after restoring 7 volumes, at 8-th volume it tried to prepend ? to every pathname extracted so it resulted in error unable to create. doing ln -s \? . and restarting restore from 8-th volume worked and i was able to finish things. why restore failed? and how to dump without fear!
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