On Feb 14, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello,
Following the instructions here: http://www.unixcities.com/howto/
index.html I did a:
Those directions are a little outdated, but the problem is really
just
that you didn't follow the directions closely enough:
dump -0f - /usr | restore -rf - /backup/usr
should have been more like
dump -0f - /usr | (cd /backup/usr;restore -xf - )
Okay, I'm still getting:
no space left in string table
abort?
If I say "n", it just core dumps....
Funny, I can't find that message in the source for dump at all.
The message, in -STABLE, is "Do you want to abort dump?".
I also can't seem to find the string table error message, but I may
just have failed to search the right library so far.
Are you running something before 5.2?
I'm running 5.4. Perhaps restore is generating this particular error
message? I don't know.
Any other suggestions?
Plenty. If there are no special files (fifos, etc.) on the disk, any
archiver will do it. e.g., tar(1)
Would using "dd" be a valid workaround to
cloning my disk?
Sure. If you really want a *clone* of the disk, it's a good option.
If having the same data files in the same filestructure would do, then
copying other attributes is overkill.
I may have to go this route, see if I can put together the disk space
to manage this. Is there a way to get tar to just extract directly to
a destination directory so I don't have to contend with a single
large tarball I need to create disk space for?
My disk is over a 100 gigabytes, could this be what
is causing dump to crap out?
Could be. Check your memory statistics while you're doing it, and see
if you run out of VM.
What is a good strategy for dealing with this possibility, should I
go down that path?
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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
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