Perhaps you have a corrupted filesystem? Does a forced fsck find anything? 'dump' would be affected by corruption whereas 'dd' would not.
- Jim On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:29, Doug Mildram wrote: > I got a californiadigital.com (was VAlinux) box, with 3ware controllers > (takes IDE drives, appears as SCSI with HW-raid on the controller). > > Price/performance looks great; > Under $15K for 2tb (2 controllers, 8x160gb on each). > Redhat7.3 installs with no extra drivers > (it only sees one BIG disk per scsi controller. Too big for dump, maybe.) > Have tried googling for this bug, but only vague and old problems/reports > about 32-bit lseek versus 64bit (which is a likely suspect.) ANYWAYS: > > QUESTION: HOW MANY OF YOU FOLKS have BIG linux ext3 filesystems, > and have you tried "dump" to back them up? > > -------details: > > MY BUG: I want to use "dump", sparingly at least, for tape archiving. > I supposed I could abandon it and use "tar" or something else. > <SNIP DETAILS> -- Jim Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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