support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape
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Mike Tancsa
mike at sentex.net
Thu Mar 26 05:11:54 PDT 2009
At 07:53 AM 3/26/2009, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> > >> SOLUTION
> > >> The "clones" are a very important pasrt of our backup program.
>Since the
> > >> dump side of the problems simply stuck and provided no error
>message at all
> > >> and the errors from any restores were not useful, our only solution
>was to
> > >> revert back to FBSD-6.3 on those servers with this issue and
>dump/restore
> > >> went back to working again. We left those that were working on
>FBSD-7.0-R
> > >> and they continue to work okay.
> >
>
>Thanks for the reply. Forgot to mention, our machines are all i386 with the
>problem -- so are the ones without the problem.
>
>Yes, I found that patch too and tried it on one of the servers -- no joy.
>
>Guess we'll continue to wait also for now. Maybe 7.2/i386....or, until
>someone finds the solution since we're out of ideas and stuck with 6.3 in
>order to use dump that we have trusted.
Hi,
I didnt see it in the thread clearly, but did you try
creating a dump without the -L... i.e. without snapshots enabled ?
---Mike
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