Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:37:19 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT Message-ID: <3EC005FF.2090600@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030512222322.A600@korben.in.tern> References: <20030512215835.V600@korben.in.tern> <20030512221444.R47986@cvs.imp.ch> <3EC00248.1040700@tcoip.com.br> <20030512222322.A600@korben.in.tern>
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Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
>
>>Martin Blapp wrote:
>>
>>>>I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the
>>>>"file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something
>>>>broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always.
>>>
>>>I just tested it without "-L" on a live, but not active filesystem.
>>>The restore finishes fine and everything seems to be there.
>>>
>>>So dump -L is broken :-(
>>
>>Now, how about making a snapshot and backing that up instead of using -L?
>
>
> The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with
> mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump
> source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it).
Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have
just greatly reduced the points of failure.
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