Re: trouble with dump/restore on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (RELENG_5_2)

From: Andreas Klemm <andreas_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:53:15 +0200
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:40:07PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> gzip shuffels blocking.
> Use dd obs=64k between zcat and restore to do reblocking the stream.

Ouch ... thanks.

Well, using FreeBSD I'm usually not getting into this situation ;-)
So I had no experience in this field.

But I remember that things like that worked in the past ...
Well but maybe I used compress ... was in conjunction with amanda
where you have a nice header in the compressed file explaining
how to unpack and skip over the amanda header using dd ...

Sorry if this was a FAQ.

	Andreas ///

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Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 18:55:33 UTC

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