> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:13:32 -0700 > From: Clint Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Oct 08, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I had a system that was showing these exact symptoms David described. It > > did this both with -L and without. I went for about 3 months without a > > successful dump. I did at least two full system re-installs to no avail. > > Then, about 3 weeks ago, when I was about to start some serious > > debugging, it started working again. Nothing was touched between the last > > failure and the first success. I'm completely baffled! > > I had a lengthy discussion with Jeremy about this where he lowered the boom > on my expectations with UFS2 and dump. I find the lack of a real > incremental backup solution with the default filesystem in FreeBSD to be an > alarming problem.
But it is a fairly unusual issue. We have a LOT of systems doing nightly dumps and only this one had the problem. It lasted for just over two months and simply vanished. I just wish I had some sort of explanation, especially when snapshots (-L) are not used. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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