Folks,
Has anyone noticed incompatabilities between different version
of dump and restore -- i.e. an archive written with one version
of dump is not readable by another restore.
Spent a frustrated weekend on the following:
1. We are running SCSI based file servers w/SCSI DDS tapes.
Using dump-0.3-14 for dump purposes.
2. Tom had created some versions of dump/restore with compatible
libraries in his add-on area which we put on our rescue disk.
3. Over the weekend, went to rebuild a system and saw the following:
a. Was able to restore the root partition doing a simple,
restore -xf /dev/nst0 with no problems (about 75 Meg).
b. Then went to restore a "home" partition (about 4 gig),
and got an endless stream of error messages like:
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Warning: '.' missing from directory ./www/thebook/users/hardwick/mandala/zubee
corrupted directory: ./www/thebook/users/hardwick/mandala/zubee
======
and the path given is not valid...
c. Thought we just had a bad tape/bad dump -- went ahead and recreated
the tape -- went through the same steps -- same error
d. Just for "grins", did a "chroot /mnt bash" (since the root
partition would always restore find) -- and then tried doing a restore
using the system dump/restore -- worked fine!!!
Is there some incompatibility which only shows up on large dumps??
Best regards!
John
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