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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:57:39 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566)
Message-ID:  <200903261157.n2QBv2Z1038026@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20090326065337.00f081e0@sage-american.com>
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At 07:53 AM 3/26/2009, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> >    >> SOLUTION
> >    >> The "clones" are a very important pasrt of our backup program.
>Since the
> >    >> dump side of the problems simply stuck and provided no error
>message at all
> >    >> and the errors from any restores were not useful, our only solution
>was to
> >    >> revert back to FBSD-6.3 on those servers with this issue and
>dump/restore
> >    >> went back to working again. We left those that were working on
>FBSD-7.0-R
> >    >> and they continue to work okay.
> >
>
>Thanks for the reply. Forgot to mention, our machines are all i386 with the
>problem -- so are the ones without the problem.
>
>Yes, I found that patch too and tried it on one of the servers -- no joy.
>
>Guess we'll continue to wait also for now. Maybe 7.2/i386....or, until
>someone finds the solution since we're out of ideas and stuck with 6.3 in
>order to use dump that we have trusted.


Hi,
         I didnt see it in the thread clearly, but did you try 
creating a dump without the -L... i.e. without snapshots enabled ?

         ---Mike 




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