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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:21:36 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Strange 'dump' behaviour
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:40:16PM +1200, Mark Ibell wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
> To: "Mark Ibell" <marki@paradise.net.nz>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Strange 'dump' behaviour
> 
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:45:26PM +1200, Mark Ibell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been playing with dump/restore a bit recently (on a 4.1-RELEASE
> system)
> > > and found that if I do a level 0 dump of /, then add a couple of files,
> and
> > > then perform a level 1 dump, most of the files in the level 0 dump are
> > > present in addition to the new files. The commands I'm running are:
> > >
> > > # dump -0au -b 10 -f /dev/nrsa0 /
> > > # dump -1au -b 10 -f /dev/nrsa0 /
> > >
> > > The same thing appears to happen on /usr & /var, but if I set up another
> > > filesystem like /bkroot everything seems to work as expected. Any ideas
> why
> > > this is happening?
> >
> > Are you sure the files being included haven't actually been changed
> > even if you did not do it yourself?
> 
> Yes - I'm positive because I've even tried running the commands one after
> another.

Oops. Forgot about this thread.

I've done some dumps and have not seen anything odd. Could you
actually show us the 'restore -tvf' output so we can see what files
are being dumped that you think should not be?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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