RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-26 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and selected port upgrades only... I didn't think there was any change

RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-26 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:41:24 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and

DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split or something then reverse the process with restore later? Working with what will be approximately a 6GB L0 dump so over 3x the size

Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split or something then reverse the process with restore later? Working with what

Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 13:41:58 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split or something then reverse the process with restore