From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 30 4:56:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CAF37B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066A443EDA for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-163-23-099-bsace7016.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br [200.163.23.99]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA20079; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:56:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DE8B580.A135CFE3@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:56:32 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: msch@snafu.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump(8) + UFS2 References: <200210281746.55442.msch@snafu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > Hello, > > it seems to me that 'dump' (8) is not able to dump UFS2 Filesystems. > > First it shows an extraordirarily large number of estimated tape blocks > for my tiny /var-partition and after that it dumps core while trying to > dump my not so tiny /usr partition. > > Is this a known issue? Are there any recommendations how to backup UFS2 > filesystems reliably? Well, I once restored something to UFS2 (converting my partitions...). It was quite funny to see 102.7% was complete, and it would end in 0 (minutes, one assume). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@linux.bsdconspiracy.net "Fundamentalist Debianites, core children of the Linuxen.... sounds like it could come from the Book of Mormon, or Tolkien on a bad day..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message