Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:26:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump/restore and large filesystem problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417162430.18612J-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <19980418032241.40294@demos.su>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Mikhail A. Sokolov wrote: > 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 . But I don't have any sparse files on the filesystem (in fact, the filesystem just contains tar archive files). Also, tar backs up the filesystem properly, without special flags. Just a "tar c /filesystem" does it all. > 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: Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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