dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 11:55:07 Mikhail T. wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate a filesystem from one disk to another using:
>
>     dump a0hCf 0 32 - /old | restore -rf -
>
> (/old is already mounted read-only). The process runs for a while and
> then stops with:
>
>     [...]
>       DUMP: 22.85% done, finished in 3:57 at Tue Mar 24 01:03:21 2009
>       DUMP: 24.66% done, finished in 3:50 at Tue Mar 24 01:00:58 2009
>       DUMP: 26.44% done, finished in 3:43 at Tue Mar 24 00:59:14 2009
>     unknown tape header type 1853384566
>     abort? [yn]
>
> Any idea, what's going on? Why can't FreeBSD's restore read FreeBSD's
> dump's output?

What happens if you don't use the cache?
Also, do you really want -h 0? That means you skip nodump marked files at a 
level 0 dump.

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