On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Henry Nelson wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 17 21:57:25 2006
> >   DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Sat Jun 17 21:57:27 2006
> >   DUMP: Average transfer rate: 2772 KB/s
> >   DUMP: Broken pipe
> >   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> > 
> > Why those last two lines?
> 
> That implies that the restore process closed the pipe before dump expected it 
> to, or possibly that the restore process exitted uncleanly with an error...?
> 
> Perhaps try:
> 
>     dump -f - /var | (cd /mnt; restore -rf - && sleep 5 \
>        || echo "somethings wrong with restore!"; true)
> 
> ...to see what's going on?
> 
> (If adding just the sleep fixes the problem, someone should change the SIGPIPE 
Sleep fixed the problem.  Do you think I should send a pr?  That message
"The ENTIRE dump is aborted." gives the impression, to me anyway, that the
operation failed, and therefore the dumped data is incomplete or unreliable.

> > Is there some tool for checking the backup?
> 
> diff -r

That worked great!  ("Only in /backup/xxx: restoresymtable")

Thanks a lot.

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henry nelson
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