Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:44:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumping really big filesystems to Travan-4 streamer (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526204400.13318f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524163337.24236F-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Sun, 24 May 1998, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> 0. FreeBSD 2.2.6-R, ufs with 6G of used space, Travan-4 by Seagate (4G
> native size) SCSI tape, hardware compression on. Central thing: file system
> used size is more than 1 tape.
>
> dumping with command
>
> > dump -0ua -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0
>
> leads to error message at the end of the first tape:
>
> DUMP: 57.24% done, finished in 1:40
> DUMP: write error 3999584 blocks into volume 1
> DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no")
>
> Then, answering "no" leads to abort entire dump; answer "yes" leads to
> remount tape and rewrite backup set from the very beginning, then to the
> same error message.
>
> Any suggestions?
You'll have to use the B and b options to manually specify the size of the
tape. Your tape drive reacts badly to end-of-tape.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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