Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:40:08 +1100 From: Sean <sean@gothic.net.au> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566) Message-ID: <A8C64471-92EC-49D6-9BFE-022FAA058CBA@gothic.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200903251925.36108.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251820.54749.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49C9E635.5010106@kkip.pl> <200903251925.36108.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On 25/03/2009, at 7:55 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:37:17 Bartosz Stec wrote: >>> Yes, dump is broken for you, deal with it. It is quite possible >>> your FS >>> is corrupt, and/or your disk is damaged. >> >> ..and/or it is some other hardware problem, maybe you also should >> test >> your memory with memtest or something similiar? I'm using dump/ >> restore >> very frequently and I had never seen such problem. Neither on - >> RELAESE, >> -STABLE, nor -CURRENT. >> So I think you should make sure that your problem is not >> hardware/filesystem dependent before you point dump/restore as a >> couse >> of the problem. Peter Jeremy already gives you good hints to do that. > > One other thing would be to make absolutely sure that your version > of dump & > restore are in sync, the are very machine/version dependent. > And the system is compiled without strange CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf Great way to cause inexplicable problems because an unsafe optimisation ran rampant, which is really noticeable when it's two programs that have to be in sync. > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C >
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