Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:57:23 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump aborts; backsup device size issue? Message-ID: <44iooj2fnw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com> (Robert Huff's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:45:14 -0400") References: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com>
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Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> writes: > I have an external hard drive connected by eSATA; it looks like this: > > used free > /dev/gpt/backup 451G 10G 405G 3% /backup > > However, when running dump this morning I got: > > /backup clean > Disk mounted > Using /backup/Mon > Dumping to /backup/Mon/root > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 2 01:59:03 2014 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/gpt/root (/) to 2014.Jun.2.root.dump > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: Cache 32 MB, blocksize = 65536 > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 1067897 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: End of tape detected > DUMP: Closing 2014.Jun.2.root.dump > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > (System = > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r264673: Sat Apr 19 09:43:10 EDT 2014 amd64 > ) > So ... trying to dump < 2 gybtes onto 405 free and "end of > tape"? I'm confused. > (I could reformat the disk, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.) > And you've said you *did* use the -a option; could you show the rest of the command line? Can you make a snapshot manually and then dump that?
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