Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:09:56 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore via netcat not ending Message-ID: <20100424210955.GA44704@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <aa4fe50cc9a0ed4efd7b1c3c3f08375b.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <aa4fe50cc9a0ed4efd7b1c3c3f08375b.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:30:28PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a restore process running now that doesn't seem to want to > end. The dump (level 0) was made this morning and sent to another > host on the network. I reformatted the partition and am restoring the > 43GB dump as such... > > restore# cd /data && nc -l 1234 | restore -rf- > backup% nc restore 1234 < data.dump > > I watched the file system slowly fill up for about 4 hours, then > network and disk I/O dropped dramatically after the restore file > system is roughly the same size as the dump file. Yet the restore is > still running. > What I ended up doing was hitting <CTRL> C on the host that was sending the data. Then the receiving host doing restore set the permissions correctly and ended. I wonder why reading a restore from stdin causes this behavior? -- Regards, Doug
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