Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

[Mike Loiterman]

Mike Loiterman <mailto:mike at ascendency.net> wrote:
> I'm having trouble dumping /usr to a samba mounted drive.
> The process dies over processing 4 gigs worth of data.
> 
> My other partitions dump fine, but they're all less than 4 gigs.
> 
> This is the error I'm getting:
> 
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Feb  3 03:31:05 2006
>    DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>    DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ar0s1f (/usr) to
> /mnt/backup/usr-dump-l0
>    DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>    DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>    DUMP: estimated 10943850 tape blocks.
>    DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>    DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
>    DUMP: 6.73% done, finished in 1:09 at Fri Feb  3 04:45:29 2006
>    DUMP: 14.92% done, finished in 0:57 at Fri Feb  3 04:38:12 2006
>    DUMP: 22.98% done, finished in 0:50 at Fri Feb  3 04:36:27 2006
>    DUMP: 31.37% done, finished in 0:43 at Fri Feb  3 04:34:56 2006
>    DUMP: write error 4194320 blocks into volume 1
> 
> The same thing happens, although I get different errors, if I
> use bzip2 or gunzip to compress the partition as it is being
> dumped.  It obviously gets a lot further since it's
> compressed, but it still dies right around 4 gigs.
> 
> How can I fix this?  Is this a samba limitation?
> 
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> Mike Loiterman
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BTW, I'm running:

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
Samba 2.2.12_2

And transfering to unix formated drived mounted under Mac OS X 10.4.4.

Would upgrading to Samba 3.x help?

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Mike Loiterman
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Tel: 630-302-4944
Fax: 773-442-0992
Email: mike at ascendency.net
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