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Date:      Sat, 18 Apr 1998 03:22:41 +0400
From:      "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dump/restore and large filesystem problems
Message-ID:  <19980418032241.40294@demos.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417135448.18612G-100000@shell.uniserve.com>; from Tom <tom@uniserve.com> on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 01:55:25PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417135448.18612G-100000@shell.uniserve.com>

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I reported bin/4683 PR on October, 3, 1997, it's still open and I didn't 
get any idea myself aswell. As it's written there, the workaround is 
-S [g,gnu]tar option. Which is "hadle sparse files efficiently" - dump
can't. This was checked on 2.1.5, 2-2-some-beta, 3-0-some-snap .

On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 01:55:25PM -0700, Tom wrote:
#   I'm attempting to backup a 32GB filesystem (about 8GB used) with dump on
# a 2.2.6-STABLE system.  The problem is that "restore" can not read the
# data back:
# 
# root@pegasus# restore -t
# Dump   date: Fri Apr 17 05:15:00 1998
# Dumped from: the epoch
# Level 0 dump of /bak on pegasus.uniserve.com:/dev/ccd0c
# Label: none
# hole in map
# abort? [yn] Segmentation fault
# root@pegasus#
# 
#   There is about a 3 second delay between the "abort?" prompt and when it
# segfaults.
# 
#   I guess dump/restore still have large filesystem problems...
# 
# 
# Tom
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