dump level 9

[Paolo Tealdi]

At 15.35 15/03/2006 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>Paolo Tealdi wrote:
>
>
>>
>>/dev/da0s1g         91399912  57543202 32028712    64%    /home
>
>Well, that does look like the whole disk, and the dates and levels 
>of the dumps look right...
>
>What happens if you leave off the -L (but still doing just an 
>estimate)?  (You shouldn't need

# dump 9SuBf 1000000000 - /home
   DUMP: WARNING: should use -L when dumping live read-write filesystems!
   DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Thu Mar 16 09:13:53 2006
   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sat Mar 11 19:40:24 2006
   DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0s1g (/home) to standard output
   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
   DUMP: estimated 57703445 tape blocks.

Little differences because the it's in production


>the redirection as nothing is actually dumped with -S). What does ls 
>-lsak /home show?  If that's just a small number of users, then "ls 
>-lsak /home/*".


>Is it conceivable that you have some process running which is 
>actually touching all the files in /home?

No.

This is an extract of the ls for a user directory

/home/BCI/avantag:
total 12098
     2 drwx------   8 bci  bci     1024 Apr 27  2005 ./
     2 drwxr-xr-x  20 bci  bci      512 Mar 14  2005 ../
     2 -rw-------   1 bci  bci       30 Jan 16  2003 .qmail
    22 -rw-------   1 bci  bci    22528 Mar 21  2001 archivio_lib.doc
    20 -rw-------   1 bci  bci    19456 Mar 21  2001 archivio_per.doc
    20 -rw-------   1 bci  bci    19456 Mar 21  2001 archivio_tes.doc
     2 drwx------   4 bci  bci      512 Apr 27  2005 biblioteca/
     2 drwx------   2 bci  bci      512 Dec 28  2004 bookmark importati/
    20 -rw-------   1 bci  bci    19456 Mar 21  2001 classificazioni_lib.doc
     2 drwx------   2 bci  bci      512 Dec 28  2004 doc.tealdi/
     2 drwx------   3 bci  bci      512 Dec 28  2004 documenti/
  2400 -rw-------   1 bci  bci  2435127 Mar 21  2001 doppi_per_chiave.zip
  5424 -rw-------   1 bci  bci  5526904 Mar 21  2001 
doppi_per_chiave_e_anno.zip
     2 drwx------  17 bci  bci     1536 Mar 16 09:16 eudora/
   400 -rw-------   1 bci  bci   378880 Mar 21  2001 
guida_configurazione_aleph500.doc
   288 -rw-------   1 bci  bci   271622 Mar 21  2001 
lista_classificazioni_singole.zip
    54 -rw-------   1 bci  bci    53849 Mar 21  2001 lista_edizioni_singole.zip
  3168 -rw-------   1 bci  bci  3224349 Mar 21  2001 lista_intestazioni.zip
   224 -rw-------   1 bci  bci   201646 Mar 21  2001 lista_soggetti_singoli.zip
     0 -rw-------   1 bci  bci        0 Jan 16  2003 mailbox
     2 drwx------   2 bci  bci      512 Dec 28  2004 maildir/

This is the output of restore -if <filename> for this directory.

restore > cd BCI/avantag
restore > ls
./BCI/avantag:
.qmail                                  eudora/
archivio_lib.doc                        guida_configurazione_aleph500.doc
archivio_per.doc                        lista_classificazioni_singole.zip
archivio_tes.doc                        lista_edizioni_singole.zip
biblioteca/                             lista_intestazioni.zip
bookmark importati/                     lista_soggetti_singoli.zip
classificazioni_lib.doc                 mailbox
doc.tealdi/                             maildir/
documenti/                              numero_dei_volumi_esistenti_su_lib.doc
doppi_per_chiave.zip                    videoregistrazioni_cd.doc
doppi_per_chiave_e_anno.zip

restore >

Best regards,
Paolo Tealdi



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