dump -L
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Aug 6 08:28:03 PDT 2007
In response to Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:56:15AM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
> > Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > >
> > > I always use "dump -L" to dump a live filesystem.
> > > However, when I restore the dump, I sometimes get messages like
> > > "foo.txt (inode 12345) not found on tape" or
> > > "expected next file 12345, got 23456"
> > >
> > > I thought this should _never_ happen when dumping a snapshot.
> > >
> > > What is it?
> >
> > Does nobody know the answer, or am I the only one experiencing the
> > problem?
> >
> > Here is another example:
> >
> > [root at big ~] restore -b64 -rN
> > ./spool/samba.lock/wins.dat: (inode 2829098) not found on tape
> > expected next file 267, got 4
> > expected next file 2828988, got 2828987
>
> Using 'dump -L' doesn't prevent you or something running on the system
> from deleting a file after the directory has been created and written.
>
> The first thing dump does is create a list of files (including directories)
> to dump. It creates a list of inodes for the files and then does all
> the dumping from that list of inodes. If a file is then deleted after
> that inode list is made, then it will not get written to the dump media.
> But, the list will still have the inode for the file. When restore
> looks for files, it searches in inode order and makes a note if an
> inode is missing from the media that it expected (because of the list) to
> be there. It is only a true error if that file really should have been
> there and wasn't. The only time I have had that happen was when the
> media (tape) couldn't be read properly. Usually then you also get
> other errors.
Ok, but using -L causes dump to create a filesystem snapshot, which is read-
only, meaning that nobody can delete a file from it during the dump process.
My guess would be that something is causing the snapshot to fail, which
will cause dump to issue a warning and then continue without making a
snapshot. Can you provide the output of dump while doing the dump?
--
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com
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