Subject: Re: big filesystems vs dump(8)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/17/2006 16:54:17
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:24:38PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> I had occasino to want to dump some stuff from a biggish filesystem
> ("928G" according to df -h) to tape.  So I ran dump:
>=20
> # dump -0 -a -b 1000 -e -f /dev/nrst0 -t /dev/rld2a

try it with a local dump to /dev/null, rather than rmt.  There are
some fun hardcoded numbers and XXX comments in dumprmt.c, and I
suspect this is an issue with that protocol rather than with the core
parts of dump itself.

--
Dan.
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