dump -L

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:54:01PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> I always use "dump -L" to dump a live filesystem.
> However, when I restore the dump, I sometimes get messages like 
> "foo.txt (inode 12345) not found on tape" or
> "expected next file 12345, got 23456" 

I'm seeing this too. It's always exactly one inode per file system.

> I thought this should _never_ happen when dumping a snapshot.
> 
> What is it?

I don't know. Perhaps it is the inode of the snapshot file
itself?

> Thanks in advance for any input.
> I am ready to provide additional info if required to understand the
> problem.
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru

Regards,
-cpghost.

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