support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:37:17 Bartosz Stec wrote:
> > Yes, dump is broken for you, deal with it. It is quite possible your FS
> > is corrupt, and/or your disk is damaged.
>
> ..and/or it is some other hardware problem, maybe you also should test
> your memory with memtest or something similiar? I'm using dump/restore
> very frequently and I had never seen such problem. Neither on -RELAESE,
> -STABLE, nor -CURRENT.
> So I think you should make sure that your problem is not
> hardware/filesystem dependent before you point dump/restore as a couse
> of the problem. Peter Jeremy already gives you good hints to do that.

One other thing would be to make absolutely sure that your version of dump & 
restore are in sync, the are very machine/version dependent.

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