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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 21:44:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   HELP:backups failing. dump broken?
Message-ID:  <199504011944.VAA29080@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>

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I cant seem to find any reason for dump(8) to fail. Yet it does.
We have a system that runs perfectly. However, when dumping (level 0)
filesystems, we sometimes get strange errors with dump.

A log of a failed dump follows at the end of this mail.

We get no related kernel messages when this dump runs. 
These errors occur sometimes, and on different filesystems ( though
appear only at /usr/ and /home; both larger partitions:

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       49383    15619    31294    33%    /
/dev/sd1h     1572894   915801   578448    61%    /home
/dev/sd0e       99143     5406    88779     6%    /tmp
/dev/sd0f      847006   324963   479693    40%    /usr
/dev/sd0g      192547    77409   105511    42%    /var
/dev/sd0h      346863   127634   201885    39%    /var/spool
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
/dev/sd2h     1928593  1655129   177034    90%    /var/spool/news

(news isn't dumped).

I tried several dd's on these filesystems (dd if=... of=/dev/null bs=32k
e.g.) and that all works okay. Further we don't see any strange
behaviour on other programs whatsoever.


-Guido

  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Mar 31 06:26:12 1995
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd1h (/home) to /dev/nDAT
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 950618 tape blocks on 0.54 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: 5.67% done, finished in 1:23
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  DUMP: 16.90% done, finished in 1:13
  DUMP: 22.51% done, finished in 1:08
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  DUMP: 89.88% done, finished in 0:09
  DUMP: 95.48% done, finished in 0:04
  DUMP: DUMP: 950699 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
  DUMP: level 0 dump on Fri Mar 31 06:26:12 1995
  DUMP: Closing /dev/nDAT
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE



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