Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive

[Gayn Winters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 7:16 AM
> To: mike at ascendency.net; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive
> 
> 
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Mike Loiterman
> > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:05 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: RE: Dumping /usr to samba mounted drive
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > Mike Loiterman
> 
> Have you tried generating a file of size > 4GB on your mac mini?
> 
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=203909#post203909

And in theory ...

http://docs.info.apple.com/jarticle.html?artnum=25557-en

-gayn

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