On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote:
Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc
is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can
you point me to a
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote:
Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc
is in /usr/bin
On Tue Sep 2 14:01:06 UTC 2008 Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Sunday 31 August 2008 18:03:53 Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted,
single
user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive
the
backup image.
And you're sure
dump -0af /mnt/d201gly-0.dump /
[snip]
restore -rf /mnt/restore/d201gly-0.dump
it complains about '/' issues
it complains about 'expecting YY got ZZ'
I very rarely use dump/restore, but based on the man page I cannot see
what's wrong other than the live fs issue already
On Sunday 31 August 2008 18:03:53 Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single
user, attached a large usb freebsd formatted file system to receive the
backup image.
And you're sure that the large usb freebsd formatted file system is intact
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:03:53PM -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
There are a couple of things missing here. You may have done them
and just not mentioned them, but...
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:53:36PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man
pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:49:10AM +0100, RW wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require
At 02:49 AM 9/1/2008 +0100, RW wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be
changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to
cause trouble later on.
but shouldn't make NO files restored,
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have
information that doesn't work.
I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It
would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have
information that doesn't
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
Hello,
this all on a 7.0 freebsd system.
Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man
pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook
rather then have information that doesn't work.
Are you trying
man pages and have no clue how to rectify this. after re-reading the
handbook on backup basics, I'm sure that anyone using them will loose
everything. They are simply useless. take them offline.
i use restore regularly and it works.
anyway - i do test my backups at least full backups. but
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be
changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to
cause trouble later on.
but shouldn't make NO files restored, maybe few files that was changed
while backing up.
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - )
One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a
snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The
default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root
again - it will still dump file, maybe
Hi!
Anybody on this, plase? :)
Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug?
Incomplete support for the ICH9R?
I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process
panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is
logged on /var/log/
Anyways, booting in verbose mode shows
At 02:09 AM 4/30/2008, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Hi!
Anybody on this, plase? :)
Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug?
Incomplete support for the ICH9R?
I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process
panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is
logged on
Hi all!
I'm playing with new HW and FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0.
I set up raid 1 on two sata disks (fakeraid on ICH9R)
and as long as I can see, it seams to work very well.
Now I'm trying to simulate 1 disk failure (I just take
out a disk and boot again). Doesn't matter which of the
two disks I take
really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.
I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting water.
Kevin
I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives
, sometimes
less than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not
working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.
I really wished this worked as easy
system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is
very usable. Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a
restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes
less than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not
working, but is anyone really using dump/restore
really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.
I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting water.
Kevin
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than half. I know I'm not being very specific with what's not
working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.
I really wished this worked as easy as falling out
very specific with what's not
working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part? I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.
I have used it many hundreds of times. The only problems have been
with media failures.
don't
out.
Looking at /usr/src/sbin/dump/traverse.c, dump traverses the used
inodes list and all directories. So if any of these is corrupt, your
dump will be too. And if the contents of the inodes is corrupted, so
will the dump.
Thanks for this insight. I'll avoid dump/restore and just use manual
if any of these is corrupt, your
dump will be too. And if the contents of the inodes is corrupted, so
will the dump.
Thanks for this insight. I'll avoid dump/restore and just use manual
copying for now.
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete
if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted
read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage.
That might be
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Smart says that the drives are fine, as does the manufacturer's disk
fitness tools. All the files that are readable contain correct data, but
the files that are corrupt are totally not readable, and cannot even be
removed manually:
Given that, I would try to make a
Roland Smith wrote:
--8--
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=93409222 OWNER=1002 MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Feb 10 00:49 2007
DIR=?
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
Did these problems start after a crash?
It's possible, but I cannot be absolutely certain. The
Hi!
I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I
must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it.
Does anybody know whether dump/restore can gracefully handle filesystem
corruption, or will it happily back up and restore said damage to the
pristine
if the corruption is so bad that fsck_ffs can't handle it. You can
e.g. tell fsck_ffs(8) to use a backup superblock, with the -b option.
Does anybody know whether dump/restore can gracefully handle filesystem
corruption, or will it happily back up and restore said damage to the
pristine filesystem?
Dump
.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete
if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted
read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage.
My question was more along the lines of whether or not dump/restore
would see that those corrupted directory
the lines of whether or not dump/restore
would see that those corrupted directory and file inodes were indeed
corrupt and not bother attempting to back them up, or if it would
happily back them up and restore them in their corrupted state to a new
filesystem, thus trashing it.
Looking at /usr/src/sbin
the lines of whether or not dump/restore
would see that those corrupted directory and file inodes were indeed
corrupt and not bother attempting to back them up, or if it would
happily back them up and restore them in their corrupted state to a new
filesystem, thus trashing it.
It depends on how
If I have built a freebsd system to my liking and want to be able to reinstall
fbsd to my pre-dump state (assuming the same slice configuration). I ran
dump -L -0f - /
dump -L -0f - /usr
dump -L -0f - /var
dump -L -0f - /tmp
and save these files remotely.
Could I then
Kimberly B wrote:
If I have built a freebsd system to my liking and want to be able to reinstall
fbsd to my pre-dump state (assuming the same slice configuration). I ran
dump -L -0f - /
dump -L -0f - /usr
dump -L -0f - /var
dump -L -0f - /tmp
and save these files remotely.
Hi all,
I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says
the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made
from.
But I dare ask this question anyway ...
If I have a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am only using 2 GIG of
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says
the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made
from.
But I dare ask this question anyway ...
If I have a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am
a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am only using 2 GIG
of that can I restore it to a 3 GIg file system?
I ask becuase somehow I have a 73 gig drive, but all my spare hard disks
disks are only 36 Gig.
Should be no problem because dump/restore work on a file-by-file basis
List;
I have a slice on ad0s1 mounting the root FS from ad0s2a, and
vice-verse. Here's what I did.
1. Started out with a 20 Gig drive with two equal slices, ad0s1 (blank)
and ad0s2 (FreeBSD).
2. Used sysinstalls fdisk and bsdlabel to create /, /var, /tmp, and
/usr partitions on ad0s1
have mentioned that I modified the dump/restore command in #3
above to reflect all the different partitions.
Patrick
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I have a puzzling problem with dump and restore. I'm looking to implement a
dump and restore pipe to automatically make copy of a file system onto
another system completely. I've used / only as an example (because it's
small) and I'm not overwriting /.
I do the following:
1. Level 0 dump and
Alexander Shikoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I maked two dumps of root filesystem with dump(8):
- the first of level 0 (all files)
- the second of level 3 on the next day after level 0 (all files new or
modified since dump of level 0 or level 3)
Now I'm trying to restore filesystem with
Hello,
I maked two dumps of root filesystem with dump(8):
- the first of level 0 (all files)
- the second of level 3 on the next day after level 0 (all files new or
modified since dump of level 0 or level 3)
Now I'm trying to restore filesystem with restore(8):
cat dump0 | (cd /mnt/ad0s1a
then the destination will need to be at least as big.
My situation is as follows:
I have a 30GB usr partition with about 10GB of data in it.
I want to move this data (flags and all!) to a new 20GB
usr partition.
Will dump/restore do this? .. or what should i use?
Thanks!
Gareth
in it.
I want to move this data (flags and all!) to a new 20GB
usr partition.
Will dump/restore do this? .. or what should i use?
No problem.
After making the new partition with disklabel and making a filesystem
out of it with newfs. Presuming your old 30 GB filesystem is mounted
as /fsa
partition with about 10GB of data in it.
I want to move this data (flags and all!) to a new 20GB
usr partition.
Will dump/restore do this? .. or what should i use?
No problem.
After making the new partition with disklabel and making a filesystem
out of it with newfs. Presuming your old 30 GB
From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote:
To restore the filesystems:
Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've
never
smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At
least
the partitions were
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:28:40PM +0100, Xian wrote:
To restore the filesystems:
Boot from a rescue disk and create the partitions of on the disk. I've never
smashed anything badly enough to need to work out how to do this. At least
the partitions were still there.
Well this is more
I am following this guide:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html
and successfully dumped /, /usr, and /var over ssh to another box and
called them root-back.gz, usr-back.gz, and var-back.gz.
But I can't figure out the restore part. Let's say I replace the
On Friday 06 May 2005 15:34, Andy Firman wrote:
I am following this guide:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.htm
l and successfully dumped /, /usr, and /var over ssh to another box and
called them root-back.gz, usr-back.gz, and var-back.gz.
But I can't
these in the dump/restore process,
I'd love to know about it.
Thanks!
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I have freebsd 4.10 on one of my production servers.
I have been using the dump/restore combo to backup my drive, and I run a
nightly dump -9 on the /home partition, and most of the dump -9s are
dumped to a single tape since I don't have daily acs to swap the tapes
more than once
I have freebsd 4.10 on one of my production servers.
I have been using the dump/restore combo to backup my drive, and I run a
nightly dump -9 on the /home partition, and most of the dump -9s are
dumped to a single tape since I don't have daily acs to swap the tapes
more than once a month
I'm trying to do something very simple, that is, restore just mp3 files
from a set of tapes.
However, none of the expressions I'm using will work..
restore -tvNf /dev/nsa1 expression; where epxressions I have tried are
*mp3
*.mp3
.*mp3
^*.mp3
^*.mp3$
^.*mp3$
It seems any expression consisting of
* Dan Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 00:01]: wrote:
Hey Gang,
I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace
it. I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it
went far slower than expected. I'm wondering if there's an issue with
the different
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:12:10AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
* Dan Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 00:01]: wrote:
Hey Gang,
I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace
it. I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it
went far
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:12:10AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
* Dan Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 00:01]: wrote:
Hey Gang,
I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace
it. I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it
went far
Hey Gang,
I had an older scsi disk going bad, so I picked up a new disk to replace
it. I did a dump | restore to move the data to the new disk, but it
went far slower than expected. I'm wondering if there's an issue with
the different disk speeds.
Old disk from dmesg:
da0: QUANTUM ATLAS IV
Hi all,
I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually
sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as
dump already indicates the time it took. Can anybody help me out here?
Thanks,
Ruben
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:50 +0200 Ruben Bloemgarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually
sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as
dump already indicates the time it took. Can anybody help me out here
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:52:50 +0200, Ruben Bloemgarten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try 'man time'. Works like this: 'time command'.
David
Hi all,
I would like to time a dump/restore operation without actually
sitting next to my box with a stopwatch. Specifically restore as
dump already
Hi all,
Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem,
to be able
to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has
occurred?
Thanks,
Ruben
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote:
Hi all,
Does someone know how to reliably run a checksum of sorts on a filesystem,
to be able
to verify filesystem integrity after a restore from dump level 0 has
occurred?
Tripwire and its ilk live in the ports system. The base system
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards.
This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet.
split(1) and cat(1) perhaps?
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards.
This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until
yet.
regards
You know that you can split dump files during the dump
See man dump for the -B
Hello Anubis,
if I have dump-seesions from tape, and I want to write parts of
it on DVDs. But I'm interested in to have each part as an correct
dump file.
regards
anubis wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files
Oliver Breuninger wrote:
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards.
You can split a file into pieces using split -b, and put the pieces together
again via cat.
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Hello,
I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards.
This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet.
regards
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My tape unit has been giving me problems on one server. So I did a
dump over ssh to another box with a working tape like this:
dump -0u -a -b 64 -f - /dev/da1s1e | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/dev/nrsa0
Then to check the dump on srv2 I did
restore -i -f /dev/nrsa0
which came back and
Hi there,
I had a question regarding Dump/Restore. I just had to reinstall FreeBSD
completely because of a problem, and now I wanted to RESTORE just the filesystem
'/usr/home'. Well, I went into '/usr/home', then tried restore -rf /dev/sa0 to
restore it. When it's done all
.
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Subject: Re: GUI front-end for dump/restore
Actually, I only need it for restore, dump is handled by cron.
Anyone know of anything? I
IAccounts wrote:
Actually, I only need it for restore, dump is handled by cron.
Anyone know of anything? I basically need a GUI that will load
all the file/directory information off tape and display it so
someone other than me can pick files to restore
(the command-
line interface is too
Actually, I only need it for restore, dump is handled by cron.
Anyone know of anything? I basically need a GUI that will load
all the file/directory information off tape and display it so
someone other than me can pick files to restore
(the command-
line interface is too cumberson for
front-end for dump/restore
Actually, I only need it for restore, dump is handled by cron.
Anyone know of anything? I basically need a GUI that will load
all the file/directory information off tape and display it so
someone other than me can pick files to restore
(the command-
line
Actually, I only need it for restore, dump is handled by cron.
Anyone know of anything? I basically need a GUI that will load
all the file/directory information off tape and display it so
someone other than me can pick files to restore (the command-
line interface is too cumberson for many
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus:
Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file
'dump.0.2002-10-10'.
Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of
Question about use of dump/restore:
I do daily dumps of several FreeBSD machines over the network to a large
archive disk. This disk has directories for different machines, with
several gzip'd dump files for each. I have a tape drive on that machine,
and I'd like to copy some of the dump
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:44:29PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Oliver Crow, and lo! it spake thus:
Of course this doesn't work because pax just creates the file
'dump.0.2002-10-10'.
Is there some way to move a dump file to a set of tapes, without having to
do the dump from the original
is not
changed.
But you will have to be extra carefull with your permissions when you
backup/restore your files. (what are you going to use for backup?
dump/restore?)
Yes, I'll be restoring from the backups I just finished making yesterday
using dump/restore (with an ATAPI CD burner, no less; still
On 01-Dec-2002 Mark Stosberg wrote:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my
filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with
more filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI
CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!!
Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my
filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more
filesystems than I'm
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI
CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!!
Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my
filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more
filesystems than I'm currently using
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:40:58AM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
First of all, I just gotta say: ATAPICAM rocks!!! I can now use my ATAPI
CD burner with dump/restore! Awesome!!!
Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my
filesystems, zap all the partitions and do
I have tested using dump in single user mode and normal mode for an online
Web server. Both have worked great. But I am worried if I try to dump on a
busy server that I will be more likely to have bad data or corrupted files.
Therefore, I have decided to do this using the Fixit cd (cd II) and
I followed a simple script and I am having troubles.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Dump all file systems
#
TAPE=/dev/nsa0
DUMP=/sbin/dump 0uaf $TAPE
mt -f $TAPE rew
for fs in / /usr /var /home; do
$DUMP $fs
done
mt -f $TAPE rew
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this works (I
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