dump level 9

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Paolo Tealdi wrote:

> At 14.16 15/03/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Paolo Tealdi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Anybody has any idea ?
>>
>> Show us the output of the dump command which didn't work as you 
>> expected.  Right when it starts it tells you what level of dump it is 
>> doing and when it thinks the last relevant dump was.  This may not be 
>> the problem, but it's the best place to start!
>
>
> anfitrione#  dump 9SuLBf 1000000000 - /home > /backup/anfitrione/test.bck
>   DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Wed Mar 15 15:34:41 2006
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sat Mar 11 19:40:24 2006
>   DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1g (/home) to standard output
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 57364771 tape blocks.
>
> S : does only an estimation of the tape blocks.
>
> /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 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?

--Alex