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

[Mike Tancsa]

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