Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:00 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tapeheadertype 1853384566) Message-ID: <49CBCDE0.60401@denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <200903261818.n2QIIPih039864@lava.sentex.ca> References: <200903261415.n2QEF7hF038711@lava.sentex.ca> <49C9E635.5010106@kkip.pl> <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251820.54749.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200903251925.36108.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3.0.1.32.20090325072137.00ee6b48@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20090326065337.00f081e0@sage-american.com> <3.0.1.32.20090326070807.00f081e0@sage-american.com> <200903261331.n2QDVd4b038485@lava.sentex.ca> <20090326140131.GA45201@hyperion.scode.org> <200903261415.n2QEF7hF038711@lava.sentex.ca> <3.0.1.32.20090326121157.00ee69f0@sage-american.com> <200903261818.n2QIIPih039864@lava.sentex.ca>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080600020607090902090707 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 01:11 PM 3/26/2009, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> No one has said the dump "L" is broken -- and is NOT but now may mislead >> others just tuning into this thread. > > > OK, sorry I misunderstood that restore worked from dump files without > -L.... > I wonder if the original poster just needs to do an fsck on the disk. > The only time I had dump crap out on me (other than with -L) was on a > dirty filesystem. > > I regularly do stuff like > cd /usr;dump 0f - /usr | (cd /tmp/usr; restore -rf - ) > to duplicate partitions > > ---Mike I do as well but if the original user is trying to restore into a filesystem that is either not clean or not EMPTY for a full restore he could run into some trouble. I've never had dump/restore fail by the way, other than due to bad (tape) media (yes, it was that long ago :) ) -- -- Karl Denninger karl@denninger.net --------------080600020607090902090707--
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