From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 21:03:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDF7776A for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B615E24E2 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A769B33C22; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:57:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8CC7A39813; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:57:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Robert Huff Subject: Re: dump aborts; backsup device size issue? References: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com> Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:57:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com> (Robert Huff's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:45:14 -0400") Message-ID: <44iooj2fnw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:03:11 -0000 Robert Huff 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?