From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 13:37:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CB837B401 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F09443F3F for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4CKbJ920707; Mon, 12 May 2003 17:37:20 -0300 Message-ID: <3EC005FF.2090600@tcoip.com.br> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:37:19 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Ertl References: <20030512215835.V600@korben.in.tern> <20030512221444.R47986@cvs.imp.ch> <3EC00248.1040700@tcoip.com.br> <20030512222322.A600@korben.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <20030512222322.A600@korben.in.tern> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Martin Blapp cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:37:59 -0000 Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > >>Martin Blapp wrote: >> >>>>I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the >>>>"file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something >>>>broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always. >>> >>>I just tested it without "-L" on a live, but not active filesystem. >>>The restore finishes fine and everything seems to be there. >>> >>>So dump -L is broken :-( >> >>Now, how about making a snapshot and backing that up instead of using -L? > > > The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with > mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump > source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it). Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have just greatly reduced the points of failure. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.