out of memory in restore?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:08:01AM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've tried an interactive restore from a dump, and glob fails, so 
> restore fails with "out of memory". Is my dump useless now?
> 
> (dumped and tried to restore under 5.4-RELEASE)

FWIW, I've seen this message from FreeBSD 5.x restore before.  It
had something to do with wildcard/glob matches while in interactive
mode (-i).  For the life of me, I can't remember how to trigger
it, and I can't seem to trigger it on my 6.x boxes (which used
to be 5.x).

I'll add that "out of memory" was quite an amusing message for
restore to print -- and the issue had nothing to do with memory
not being available, it was just something that would get printed
before erroring out on an operation that involved globbing or
wildcards.

I don't think your dump is useless.  I'd be curious to see how you're
doing the dumps, and how you're doing the restore session, though.

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