tags 520927 moreinfo thanks Hello Jenny,
Back in March 2009, you reported a bug about file corruption when dumping filesystems. Bdale Garbee, who maintains the relevant package asked the upstream author (Stelian Pop) whether that rings some bells for him. Stelian answered the following, which was apparently never forwarded to you (or at least in a visible way). This sounds like some tests could be done on your side. Hopefully, you're still in position to do them... Stelian Pop's answer: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:15:37PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > One of the users of my Debian package of dump reported repeatable corruption > when using dump over rmt to a remote tape drive. See the item in our bug > tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/520927 for more information. > > I've poked around a bit, but it won't be easy for me to reproduce the problem. > Does this ring any bells with you? This sounds a lot like the kind of problems that can be encountered when dumping a live filesystem. In order to completly rule out any network related corruptions, I would suggest to try doing a dumping locally (into a file in /tmp for example), and try restoring (or comparing) this dump. As for the live filesystem problem, the only way to confirm that this is the cause is, well, to umount (or mount R/O) the filesystem before dumping. While you're at it, try to force a fsck on this filesystem, just in case the filesystem is really corrupt... Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <stel...@popies.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
