Re: Dump on large file systems
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. 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. -Erik- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dump on large file systems
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. 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]
