> On 8/14/05, John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> >> I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't >> work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any >> data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is >> this a known problem? Are there any work arounds? >> >> John >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) >> >> iD8DBQFC/1VpaVyA7PElsKkRAwnlAKCiqEJ5BLoKpHIRCOLMbcSjrpNBjgCgyyZp >> nM+KOXrDZs96+nk7QV6hOCc> =7Kv9 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > > If you are dumping that 660G slice to a file, you will need to split > it up into smaller chuncks. > > dump -0auLf - / | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file." > > The above line will create 1G files and append the filename (see the > trailing ".") > eg.. 20050815-root.aaaa > 20050815-root.aaab > > You can also gzip it, but this makes the backup take a long time. > dump -0auLf - / | gzip | split -a4 -b1024m - "patth/to/dump/file.gz." > >
Nope I'm dumping to an IOMEGA Rev 35Gb removable disk - but it doesn't get that far -it hangs before wrting any output data. John _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
