Problems with dump and restore

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Thu Aug 14 06:53:34 UTC 2014


Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote:
> 
> True, but my understanding of snapshots is that it is supposed to
> eliminate exactly this problem, no?

There is something fishy about 'dump -L'.  When I dump a busy mail
server and then restore the dumps, I often get the message lile

./CommuniGate/Domains/mail.tomsk.ru/mptdkfe.macnt/account.info: (inode 7206930) not found on tape

However, restoring this filesystems has always worked in general, with
a few file lost like shown above.

If you have SU+J, you cannot use -L at all, 'dump -L' (or mksnap_ffs)
will complain.

-- 
Victor Sudakov 
Tomsk, Russia
Russian Barefoot FAQ at http://www.barefooters.ru/barefoot.txt


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