Dump time issues

[Alban Hertroys]

I’m seeing something odd in my dump output that I didn’t notice before:

Dumping /root...
  DUMP: WARNING: should use -L when dumping live read-write filesystems!
  DUMP: Date of this level 6 dump: Sat Oct 25 12:43:08 2014
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Feb 23 01:38:22 2014
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/mirror/root (/) to standard output
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 178184276 tape blocks.
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: 2.43% done, finished in 3:20 at Sat Oct 25 16:09:41 2014
  DUMP: 5.35% done, finished in 2:57 at Sat Oct 25 15:51:18 2014
  DUMP: 6.98% done, finished in 3:19 at Sat Oct 25 16:19:11 2014
  DUMP: 9.14% done, finished in 3:18 at Sat Oct 25 16:22:57 2014
  DUMP: 11.98% done, finished in 3:03 at Sat Oct 25 16:12:54 2014
  DUMP: 14.35% done, finished in 2:59 at Sat Oct 25 16:13:20 2014

Note that the time is jumping back and forth and that these times are several hours into the future:

$> date
Sat Oct 25 13:16:05 CEST 2014

It’s probably harmless, but I thought I’d ask. A quick search on Google didn’t turn up anything useful.

System is:
$> uname -a
FreeBSD solfertje 9.3-STABLE FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE #12 r269624: Wed Aug  6 14:51:47 CEST 2014     foo at bar:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANTELOPE  amd64

P.S. Not using dump -L because that’s a journaled UFS file system that doesn’t support snapshots.

Cheers,

Alban Hertroys
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