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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:44:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: Re: dumping really big filesystems to Travan-4 streamer (fwd)
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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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