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Subject: Re: strange behavior of restore(8)
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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >>
> >>> Lo and behold! On an amd64 system with 8GB RAM and 2 2.66GHz Xeon
> >>> CPUs, "restore -rNf home.dmp" has successfully completed after 3 hours
> >>> 15 minutes.
> >>
> >> What are the specs for the system that wrote the dumpfile originally 
> > 
> > 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64, 8GB RAM and 2xXeon 2.66GHz
> > 
> >> and the system that couldn't restore it?
> > 
> > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p10 i386, 256M RAM, Pentium II 350.80MHz (yes,
> > it's pretty old).
> 
> ufs1 vs ufs2 ?  

UFS2 on the first host, irrelevant on the second host (I was trying
"restore -rN").

> Also if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a bit of RAM.

I should think so, but it generated no errors or "out of swap"
messages. It was just running forever.

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