Re: dump level 9

2006-03-20 Thread Paolo Tealdi
At 13.23 16/03/2006 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Good luck. If you try the newfs, please let us know how it turns out. Hurra ! I resolved! Obviously newfs did not resolve. :-( But... i studied the problem from another point of view reading dump sources, as you suggested. dump thinks that

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: Hurra ! I resolved! Excellent! Obviously newfs did not resolve. :-( But... i studied the problem from another point of view reading dump sources, as you suggested. dump thinks that file has changed if : a) modification date has changed b) cdate has changed : cdate is

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Paolo Tealdi
At 15.35 15/03/2006 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Paolo Tealdi wrote: /dev/da0s1g 91399912 57543202 3202871264%/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

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: At 15.35 15/03/2006 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Paolo Tealdi wrote: /dev/da0s1g 91399912 57543202 3202871264%/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

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Paolo Tealdi
At 11.20 16/03/2006 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Clutching at straws, here are some things I might try: 1) which dump - just to be absolutely sure /sbin/dump 2) Remake dump from /usr/src. 3) Make sure base system is OK. Cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel etc. This would bring you up to -p12

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: I will do a newfs on saturday afternoon, after doing some backups (also on tape). After this, if the problem persists, i'll do the pass 2, 3 and 4. In my opinion something gets damaged at filesystem level after an energy block (date are similar). I did an fsck (more

dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Paolo Tealdi
Dear all, i've a problem with a dump on level 9 for a filesystem. Scenario : a) System with 2 filesystem ( /home and /backup ). b) every night a batch process makes a dump of /home on a file living on /backup. On saturday it makes a dump on level 0 and the other nights it makes a dump on

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear all, i've a problem with a dump on level 9 for a filesystem. Scenario : a) System with 2 filesystem ( /home and /backup ). b) every night a batch process makes a dump of /home on a file living on /backup. On saturday it makes a dump on level 0 and the other nights it makes a

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: i've a problem with a dump on level 9 for a filesystem. Scenario : a) System with 2 filesystem ( /home and /backup ). b) every night a batch process makes a dump of /home on a file living on /backup. On saturday it makes a dump on level 0 and the other nights it makes a

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Paolo Tealdi
At 08.45 15/03/2006 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I wonder why you chose level 9 for your change dumps. It sort of defeats the system. It would be more normal to use level 1. I know that [some much] earlier versions of BSD dump only took levels up to 5, but I presume that since they

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I wonder why you chose level 9 for your change dumps. It sort of defeats the system. It would be more normal to use level 1. I know that [some much] earlier versions of BSD dump only took levels up to 5, but I presume that since they include up to 9 in the

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
At 08.45 15/03/2006 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I wonder why you chose level 9 for your change dumps. It sort of defeats the system. It would be more normal to use level 1. I know that [some much] earlier versions of BSD dump only took levels up to 5, but I presume that since

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I wonder why you chose level 9 for your change dumps. It sort of defeats the system. It would be more normal to use level 1. I know that [some much] earlier versions of BSD dump only took levels up to 5, but I presume that since they include up to 9

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Paolo Tealdi
At 14.16 15/03/2006 +, 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

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: At 14.16 15/03/2006 +, 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