Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:57:39 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566) Message-ID: <200903261157.n2QBv2Z1038026@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20090326065337.00f081e0@sage-american.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20090325072137.00ee6b48@sage-american.com> <49C9E635.5010106@kkip.pl> <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251820.54749.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200903251925.36108.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3.0.1.32.20090325072137.00ee6b48@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20090326065337.00f081e0@sage-american.com>
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At 07:53 AM 3/26/2009, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> > >> SOLUTION
> > >> The "clones" are a very important pasrt of our backup program.
>Since the
> > >> dump side of the problems simply stuck and provided no error
>message at all
> > >> and the errors from any restores were not useful, our only solution
>was to
> > >> revert back to FBSD-6.3 on those servers with this issue and
>dump/restore
> > >> went back to working again. We left those that were working on
>FBSD-7.0-R
> > >> and they continue to work okay.
> >
>
>Thanks for the reply. Forgot to mention, our machines are all i386 with the
>problem -- so are the ones without the problem.
>
>Yes, I found that patch too and tried it on one of the servers -- no joy.
>
>Guess we'll continue to wait also for now. Maybe 7.2/i386....or, until
>someone finds the solution since we're out of ideas and stuck with 6.3 in
>order to use dump that we have trusted.
Hi,
I didnt see it in the thread clearly, but did you try
creating a dump without the -L... i.e. without snapshots enabled ?
---Mike
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