Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HELP:backups failing. dump broken? Message-ID: <199504031704.NAA02177@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504011944.VAA29080@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Apr 1, 95 09:44:49 pm
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Guido van Rooij writes: > I cant seem to find any reason for dump(8) to fail. Yet it does. > We have a system that runs perfectly. However, when dumping (level 0) > filesystems, we sometimes get strange errors with dump. [...] > DUMP: bread: lseek2 fails! > DUMP: read error from /dev/rsd1h: Invalid argument: [sector -814171466]: count=512 I had this problem after upgrading to 2.0 when backing up a filesystem created under 1.1. The solution was to unmount the filesystem in question, and fsck -c 3. Read the fsck man page for details. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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