Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > >>Martin Blapp wrote: >> >>>>I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the >>>>"file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something >>>>broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always. >>> >>>I just tested it without "-L" on a live, but not active filesystem. >>>The restore finishes fine and everything seems to be there. >>> >>>So dump -L is broken :-( >> >>Now, how about making a snapshot and backing that up instead of using -L? > > > The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with > mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump > source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it). Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have just greatly reduced the points of failure. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo_at_tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral_at_tcoip.com.br dcs_at_tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs_at_newsguy.com dcs_at_freebsd.org capo_at_notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.Received on Mon May 12 2003 - 11:37:59 UTC
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