From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 18:42:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E644437B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.dreamscape.com (mail2.dreamscape.com [206.64.128.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E1C43E58 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krentel@dreamscape.com) Received: from dreamscape.com (sA21-p62.dreamscape.com [209.217.202.62]) by mail2.dreamscape.com (8.9.3+blt/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11246; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from blue.mwk.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dreamscape.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6J1gI517325; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:42:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from krentel@blue.mwk.domain) Message-Id: <200207190142.g6J1gI517325@dreamscape.com> To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:55:10 BST." <20020717155510.GA85749@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:42:18 -0400 From: "Mark W. Krentel" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > After upgrading some Redhat machines to 1GB of ram it became nearly > impossible to dump any filesystem without dump going crazy trying > to read nonexistant blocks (previously it had worked fine). Upgrading > the version of the linux dump program which we use helped significantly > and now we can back up the machines with amanda again. Do you check your backups, or does Amanda do it for you? I think dump is on the way out in Linux. http://old.lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3 --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message