Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:41:46 +0200 From: rene@xs4all.nl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: restore fails when trying to run from fixit.flp (freeBSD) Message-ID: <20010602124146.A12549@xs4all.nl>
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Hi. I've got a 4.3-stable box for which I'm testing a backup procedure. I have 4 disks in the box: da0 scsi 8G (bootdisk) da1 scsi 2G ad0 IDE 10G ad1 IDE 10G I have made a single slice of ad0, ad0s1 and newFSed that, then mounted it somewhere. I have done the following on my running system: dump -0ua /mnt/ad0/l0/da0s1a / dump -0ua /mnt/ad0/l0/da0s1e /var dump -0ua /mnt/ad0/l0/da0s1f /usr disklabel da0 | /mnt/ad0/l0/da0.disklabel.txt dmesg | /mnt/ad0/dmesg.txt cp /etc/fstab /mnt/ad0/fstab This produced the correct files without errors in the /mnt/ad0/ structure I then used MSDos to format the da0 disk, simulating a complete failure. Now, restoration of my volumes I want to have done via the simplest procedure possible; I think this is to boot a fixit.flp (after kern.flp and mfsroot.flp ofcourse) and start a shell. So, in this case, I use the installation menu of mfsroot.flp to re-create the partitions/slices (slightly changed in size, decreased 7G /usr to 5G, then enlarged / and /var) on the ad0 disk. I then newfs'ed those new partitions (da0s1a, da0s1e and da0s1f), and mounted them as /mnt/da0s1*. Restoring the first two volumes, / and /var, is done without problems. I simply use cd /mnt/da0s1a && restore -rf /mnt/ad0/l0/da0s1a and the same for da0s1e ofcourse, they both work without any messages and re-create files so I guess they work just fine. Now, the problem starts with restoring /mnt/da0s1f with cd /mnt/da0s1f && restore -rf /mnt/ad0/l0/da0s1f the first set of errors I get is /: write failed, file system is full I get this one quite often, but the process continues anyway, and then starts outputting a new set of errors: warning: '.' missing from directory ./include/<something> or warning: '..' missing from directory ./include/<something> Now, a quick look at df output shows me that my / filesystem is indeed full. mount shows me that / is in fact /dev/md0c which is a 2.88M ramdisk. I thought of remounting / as /dev/da0s1a (since its restored already), but ofcourse(?) I can't remount a filesys that's in use...(?) I would appreciate some clues here, I never thought that the backup-restore procedure of fbsd would be so complicated :(( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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