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Date:      Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:09:59 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump restore problem
Message-ID:  <20030426220959.GA55118@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <16042.64964.345642.224980@ultrahot.finland.sun.com>
References:  <16042.64964.345642.224980@ultrahot.finland.sun.com>

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:44:36AM +0300, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland wrote:
> During my ufs2 migration I've used piped dump restore procedure.  Is
> it normal that block sizes like 512 or 1000 don't work?  Block size
> 512 gives an error and 1000 hangs forever while 126 is working fine.
> 
> dump 0buf 512 - / | restore xbf 512 -

dump 0abuf 512 - / | restore xf -

Add -a (infinate tape lenght), and let restore figure out the block size.



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