Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:56:01 +1000 From: Greg Black <freebsd-nospam@yaxom.com> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566 Message-ID: <nospam-1237956961.78753@joker.yaxom.com> In-Reply-To: <49C99FD2.50609@aldan.algebra.com> References: <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251232.11418.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49C99204.2050601@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251334.38350.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49C99FD2.50609@aldan.algebra.com>
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On 2009-03-24, Mikhail T. wrote: > That's true. I just wanted to point out, that someone running dump only > (to make backups) is not going to know, whether his dumps are usable > (for whichever of the two reasons), until he needs them... Such a person is not making backups and deserves what he gets. I haven't got anything to say about dump/restore because I haven't bothered with them for years. I do know that dumps from mounted file systems will often appear to work, but will fail when it matters. This is not a bug and is expected behaviour to which the solution is obvious.
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