Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:07:14 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: dump unreliable? Message-ID: <199708122107.RAA08996@repeat.pci.on.ca>
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Now... I havn't exhaustively tested this, but I recently tried dumping a couple of filesystems onto a tape, and then restoring them. The restore came up with less than half the files on the origional filesystem --- and a whole pile of messages about skipping blocks on the tape and so on. I've been trying this with multiple tapes and different systems. I even added a second SCSI card (to separate the tape and disk drives). You might think that is end of story. However, when I tar'd the same partition to tape (tar -cvlf /dev/rst0 /) and then tested the tar tape (tar -dvf /dev/rst0), no errors were reported (save /dev/ttyp0 had changed owners, but that was a known thing). This has all left me rather puzzled. Is dump reliable at all? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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