Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:32:01 -0400 From: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump on large file systems Message-ID: <f42935a6050815043231e4907a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42FF5569.1090005@cloudview.com> References: <42FF5569.1090005@cloudview.com>
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On 8/14/05, John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 >=20 >=20 > I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't > work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any > data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is > this a known problem? Are there any work arounds? >=20 > John > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) >=20 > iD8DBQFC/1VpaVyA7PElsKkRAwnlAKCiqEJ5BLoKpHIRCOLMbcSjrpNBjgCgyyZp > nM+KOXrDZs96+nk7QV6hOCc=3D > =3D7Kv9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 If you are dumping that 660G slice to a file, you will need to split it up into smaller chuncks. dump -0auLf - / | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file." The above line will create 1G files and append the filename (see the trailing ".") eg.. 20050815-root.aaaa 20050815-root.aaab You can also gzip it, but this makes the backup take a long time. dump -0auLf - / | gzip | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file.gz." -Erik-
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