Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > > >Lo and behold! On an amd64 system with 8GB RAM and 2 2.66GHz Xeon > > > >CPUs, "restore -rNf home.dmp" has successfully completed after 3 hours > > > >15 minutes. > > > > > > What are the specs for the system that wrote the dumpfile originally > > > > 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64, 8GB RAM and 2xXeon 2.66GHz > > > > > and the system that couldn't restore it? > > > > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p10 i386, 256M RAM, Pentium II 350.80MHz (yes, > > it's pretty old). > > *WITHOUT* checking, I'm willing to bet that _that_ is the problem. > > An O/S limit on the size of a _file_ -- a 32-bit 'offset' type. > And a 'large' file in the dump.
I used the '-N' switch to restore, so no actual files were being created on the 6.4-RELEASE box. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
