dump -L

[Victor Sudakov]

Bill Moran wrote:
> > > Here is another example:
> > > 
> > > [root at big ~] restore -b64 -rN 
> > > ./spool/samba.lock/wins.dat: (inode 2829098) not found on tape
> > > expected next file 267, got 4
> > > expected next file 2828988, got 2828987

[dd]

> 
> My guess would be that something is causing the snapshot to fail, which
> will cause dump to issue a warning and then continue without making a
> snapshot.  

It is not likely.

> Can you provide the output of dump while doing the dump?

[root at big ~] dump -b64 -0La  /var
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Aug  6 22:43:07 2007
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/mirror/gm1s1f (/var) to /dev/nsa0
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 21553084 tape blocks.
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]



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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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