From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 11:32:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E469F16A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:32:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hornetmadness@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7812143D48 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:32:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hornetmadness@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 34so204200rns for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:32:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uAQ7ar+mpjxl3cUe4k9JQ1H9MLZsgw13vT5sbohK+B6pkx5kHckDo+fAbqa+HcYfoVh2xUVEmg6ZPBKiYkFqyghGYeKW5FjNaiyqHNbtKIAOJer+yoKkSG+0DJ1RO1hflZbhLm8+kPH2T/6c7AJhOUrM1OMa0i1z05iMy+6/ZF8= Received: by 10.38.4.77 with SMTP id 77mr96445rnd; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.8.23 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:32:01 -0400 From: Hornet To: John Pettitt In-Reply-To: <42FF5569.1090005@cloudview.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42FF5569.1090005@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump on large file systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:32:03 -0000 On 8/14/05, John Pettitt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 >=20 >=20 > I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't > work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any > data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is > this a known problem? Are there any work arounds? >=20 > John > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) >=20 > iD8DBQFC/1VpaVyA7PElsKkRAwnlAKCiqEJ5BLoKpHIRCOLMbcSjrpNBjgCgyyZp > nM+KOXrDZs96+nk7QV6hOCc=3D > =3D7Kv9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 If you are dumping that 660G slice to a file, you will need to split it up into smaller chuncks. dump -0auLf - / | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file." The above line will create 1G files and append the filename (see the trailing ".") eg.. 20050815-root.aaaa 20050815-root.aaab You can also gzip it, but this makes the backup take a long time. dump -0auLf - / | gzip | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file.gz." -Erik-