Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT

[Lukas Ertl]

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Martin Blapp wrote:
> >
> >>I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the
> >>"file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something
> >>broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always.
> >
> > I just tested it without "-L" on a live, but not active filesystem.
> > The restore finishes fine and everything seems to be there.
> >
> > So dump -L is broken :-(
>
> Now, how about making a snapshot and backing that up instead of using -L?

The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with
mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump
source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it).

regards,
le

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