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From: Mark Hannon <markhannon@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/32261; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Hannon <markhannon@optushome.com.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, markhannon@optushome.com.au
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped 
 files
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 20:15:53 +1100

 The problem seems to go away if I manually delete any existing dump
 files with the same
 name as the new dump prior to making a new dump. ie. the total filesize
 of a file, usr9
 (ie the level 9 dump of /usr that is written every night) never gets any
 smaller.
 
 Any ideas of what this might be?  (I have changed my backup script to
 unlink the old file
 before starting a new dump now and it seems to work)
 
 /mark

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