tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm getting accostumed to dump my fbsd 5.4 filesystems with dump on files in a samba share. Now, I'd like to compress the dumped files in the making (for instance piping it via tar) but I don't know how to do it. Could you please help me? Ciao Vittorio

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED] it [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting accostumed to dump my fbsd 5.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] filesystems with dump on files in a samba [EMAIL PROTECTED] share. Now, I'd like to compress the dumped files [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm getting accostumed to dump my fbsd 5.4 filesystems with dump on files in a samba share. Now, I'd like to compress the dumped files in the making (for instance piping it via tar) but I don't know how to do it. Could you please help me? Use gzip(1) or compress(1) if it is already

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Robin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dump -0 -f - /dev/yourfilesystem |bzip2 -c dump.bz I compressed a filesystem dump (on Athlon 64/3200+, i386 OS) and bzip2 compressed to 50% of 2 GB in 1118 sec gzip compressed to 52% of 2 GB in 306 sec But bzip2 can compress much better than

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary W. Swearingen thusly... I compressed a filesystem dump (on Athlon 64/3200+, i386 OS) and bzip2 compressed to 50% of 2 GB in 1118 sec gzip compressed to 52% of 2 GB in 306 sec But bzip2 can compress much better than that on some stuff

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this context, by bzip did you actually meant bzip2? (There is a archivers/bzip port.) No, I presented bzip2-labeled test results and then made statements about archivers/bzip. But I suppose they're true about bzip2 too.

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary W. Swearingen thusly... Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this context, by bzip did you actually meant bzip2? (There is a archivers/bzip port.) No, I presented bzip2-labeled test results and then made statements about archivers/bzip. Thanks

Re: tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Smith
: to compress a dump, just run dump with the -f - flag and pipe the output through your favorite compression program (gzip, bzip2, bzip, compress). I was responding to a question about the use of tar, which would be pointless here. Robin Smith ___ freebsd

How to find the cause of core dump

2005-08-26 Thread Pang
Hello all, I have got a lot of signal 11 on dmesg pid 62519 (httpd), uid 398: exited on signal 11 I am sure it is software problem, since I just moved all the things to a new servers and I still got these errors. So, I need to find the cause of the problem, but I don't know where to start.

Re: How to find the cause of core dump

2005-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 06:08:35AM +0800, Pang wrote: Hello all, I have got a lot of signal 11 on dmesg pid 62519 (httpd), uid 398: exited on signal 11 I am sure it is software problem, since I just moved all the things to a new servers and I still got these errors. So, I need to find

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-25 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: All this great discussion got me researchinng. I haven't tried this out but it looks like rsnapshot integrates a lot of features like this into a single configurable, cronable script. It is in ports as well. A lot of systems

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:35:35AM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: 2) If all you have to deal with are static files and a not-super-giant-filesystem, use rsync. rsync -avz --delete once a night will mirror your data between drives or between machines without any trouble. The only disadvantage

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-24 Thread Danny Howard
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:32:38PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: Another useful rsync option is --link-dest: --link-dest=DIR This option behaves like --copy-dest, but unchanged files are hard linked from DIR to the destination directory. The files must be identical

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-23 Thread Danny Howard
performance just dump level 0 every night. Or ... really it depends what you want and what you've got. Do you want to be able to restore deleted files from the week prior? If not, then you can get away with nightly full dump or nightly full mirror strategies. Otherwise, yes, you need to rig up some

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-23 Thread Philip Hallstrom
2) If all you have to deal with are static files and a not-super-giant-filesystem, use rsync. rsync -avz --delete once a night will mirror your data between drives or between machines without any trouble. The only disadvantage is there is no file retention if you want to restore a corrupt /

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
this right? Every time a dump of level N is, eh, taken, earlier tapes of level N become obsolete and are free to go(*). In this case, that happens every other time. (*) Unless one would like to have those file versions around for a longer time, of course. Yes, that looks correct. Like I said

RE: How to capture screen dump

2005-08-20 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ryan Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:49 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to capture screen dump Hi All Is there anyway I can capture the screen dump mentioned below

How to capture screen dump

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi All Is there anyway I can capture the screen dump mentioned below to help with de-bugging... Cheers and thanks in advance Chris - Hi We have a microstar model ms9211 1ru server with p4 1.3 512mb ram... Mobo ms 9129 Ver 1 It boots all other cd's inc many other os's inc freeBSD

dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
other for extra security. Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says it is an efficient

Re: How to capture screen dump

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Ryan
From: Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:03:08 -0700 To: 'Chris Ryan' [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to capture screen dump -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ryan Sent

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says it is an efficient

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
backup and there is not a lot of data change between backups, then doing a full (leval 0) dump once per week and a level 1 on other days would be fine. If your filesystem is much bigger than your media or your data changes a lot between backup, then you will want to implement a more complex scheme

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 19, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [ ...a good explanation snipped... ] Personally I use a much shorter sequence: 0 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2. But that's because I don't usually change vast amounts of data. I would also consider doing your backups daily, not weekly as your example

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread Ilari Laitinen
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:22:20PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ilari Laitinen wrote: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

2005-08-19 Thread David Israelsson
Ilari Laitinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Handbook reads dump(8) is the best backup program there is. So I am giving it a try - only to find out that I don't understand at all the meaning of that modified Tower of Hanoi algorithm descibed in the manual page and elsewhere. The manual page says

Re: dump restore question

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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

dump restore question

2005-08-16 Thread Alexander Shikoff
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

Re: Dump on large file systems

2005-08-15 Thread Hornet
On 8/14/05, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any data to the dump device (this on an up to date

Re: Dump on large file systems

2005-08-15 Thread jpp
On 8/14/05, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5

Dump on large file systems

2005-08-14 Thread John Pettitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is this a known problem? Are there any work

Getting session details from a dump tape

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I've done a level 0 dump of a server which is spanned over several tapes. Somehow, when I was labelling the tapes, I did something wrong and have an extra tape in there. I'm wondering if there is some way to find out what is on the tapes? I know I could do an ls to look at the files

Dump/Tape block question

2005-07-25 Thread FreeBSD Questions
Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted this on the 21st and never saw it show up in the mailing list, so I'm assuming nobody ever received it. I have a question about dump and tape blocks. When I do backups, dump tells me it uses a certain number of blocks for that particular backup. I explicitly

Re: Dump/Tape block question

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
on the number of blocks dumped (I assume these blocks are the size I specify on the dump command line). In fact, how can I calculate how many blocks my tape can hold? (i.e. What is the biggest block number an 'mt rdhpos' or 'mt rdspos' will report for my tape?) It'd be real useful to have

Re: Dump/Tape block question

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:20 AM 7/25/2005, FreeBSD Questions wrote: Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted this on the 21st and never saw it show up in the mailing list, so I'm assuming nobody ever received it. I have a question about dump and tape blocks. When I do backups, dump tells me it uses a certain number

Dump/Tape blocks question

2005-07-21 Thread FreeBSD Questions
I have a question about dump and tape blocks. When I do backups, dump tells me it uses a certain number of blocks for that particular backup. I explicitly set my block size to 65K when I do a dump. When I read the SCSI or hardware block location on the tape after the dump, it's nowhere near

early panic and dump

2005-07-17 Thread Csaba Henk
) with a page fault. Has anyone met with this phenomena? I'd like to show you some fancy backtracks, but as it all happened before starting init, rc.conf settings won't help me in getting the dump. What I've read: the dump device can be hard-coded via the dump clause in the config(5) line

core dump

2005-07-13 Thread caleb
Hi, I am having some problems with firefox 1.0.4 and the helix real player 10 plugin. Whenever I try and access a page which requires the plugin firefox crashes and reports a core dump. Below is an entry from /var/log/messages; Jul 12 21:15:15 localhost kernel: pid 674 (firefox-bin

Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? From my understanding, the whole partition, including blank space will be dumped and restored. If this is the case

Re: Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty (unused) space

Re: Dump Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-24 Thread J. Johnston
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? fetch -o - http://url curl

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-21 Thread Frederic Andres
you can also use Lynx with the -dump option. Fred Quoting David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps

dump with -L flag - machine truely unresponsive

2005-06-21 Thread Freminlins
I have a FreeBSD 5.4 machine with a SCSI hard drive. I dump all our machines onto a nfs-mounted filer. There are some files which it's important not to clobber during the dump, so I've been experimenting with dump using the -L flag like so: dump auLf /var /mnt/dump/var What I have noticed

Re: dump with -L flag - machine truely unresponsive

2005-06-21 Thread -
intuition here. Freminlins wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.4 machine with a SCSI hard drive. I dump all our machines onto a nfs-mounted filer. There are some files which it's important not to clobber during the dump, so I've been experimenting with dump using the -L flag like so: dump auLf /var /mnt

utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread Brian John
Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread Mantas Smelevicius
--output-document=/dev/cuaa0 for example not work? On 6/20/05, Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? Thanks /Brian

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread agerber
Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? Thanks /Brian Lynx is pretty easy to use for this: lynx -dump http://www.google.com -- Alan Gerber

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:05:48AM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? fetch -o - http://url -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread Björn König
Yet some other solutions: with bash: ( printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n' 3 cat 03 ) 3 /dev/tcp/www.freebsd.org/80 with netcat: printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0' | nc www.freebsd.org 80 Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

System Panics and Core Dump help

2005-06-01 Thread Denny White
, leaving the dump directory at its default /var/crash in /etc/defaults/rc.conf: dumpdev=/dev/amrd0s1b (this is my swap partition) savecore_flags=-z (added flag for compression) Now, in /var/log/messages, I get: savecore: unable to open bounds file, using 0 savecore: no dumps found Am I right

Re: System Panics and Core Dump help

2005-06-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
: ... Now, in /var/log/messages, I get: savecore: unable to open bounds file, using 0 savecore: no dumps found Did you get a dump? Otherwise the second message is normal. The first one is harmless, and should only occur on the first real dump. Am I right in assuming that the system's

Re: System Panics and Core Dump help

2005-06-01 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, didn't get a dump. Everything's fine on the system. I was just trying to follow how to be prepared for a panic, crash, etc., to be able to do a backtrace and have info to give someone trying to help debug the kernel. First time I rebooted

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-20 Thread Elliot Finley
/vi and one has to set EDITOR=/mnt2/usr/bin/vi for disklabel to work. Is that a bug? This also happens when I boot off disk1, enter fixit mode, and use the live filesystem with disk2. It is very easy to dump filesystems for backup, but it is not easy to restore filesystems. (I am trying to do

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-18 Thread Andy Firman
/vi for disklabel to work. Is that a bug? This also happens when I boot off disk1, enter fixit mode, and use the live filesystem with disk2. It is very easy to dump filesystems for backup, but it is not easy to restore filesystems. (I am trying to do this all over ssh...not tape) It is probably

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-17 Thread Viren Patel
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like to take the backup file (var-200500516) and move it to tape

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000786 secs (0 bytes/sec) Since 'dump' works with /dev/nsa0 I am not sure what the problem is. I would expect the dd to work also. You may need to do something with blocksize. But, we see that error a lot on different machines while attempting

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
transfered the dump file to tape and then was able to restore directly from tape. My test dump file was small (140K) but today I plan to test with a full-size multi-gigabyte dump file. I haven't played long with dd to judge its reliability. While I was looking around, I also came across sdd

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
tar and dump. Are you absolutely certain that the tape device is not in use at the time that the application receives the error? Yes. It can even happen in single user. So far I have only had the problem with various levels of DAT tapes. It has never failed that way with DLTs. jerry

Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Viren Patel
Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like to take the backup file (var-200500516) and move it to tape (on the NFS server). However I'd like the tape to have the data just as if it had

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like to take the backup file (var-200500516) and move it to tape (on the NFS

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Viren Patel
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like to take the backup file (var-200500516) and move it to tape (on the NFS

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:52:18PM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Viren Patel
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:52:18PM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like

Re: Transferring dump file to tape?

2005-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Viren Patel wrote: Hello. I am using 'dump' to backup client filesystems to a disk file on an NFS mounted partition, e.g. dump -0aLu -f /bk/var-20050516 /var Now I'd like to take the backup file (var-200500516) and move it to tape

proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box

2005-05-10 Thread Steve
. I am using the .../backups directory to do a daily backup of selected directories from the P4 box and I want to put my dumps from the in the .../dumps directory. I read the man page for dump but I'm still a little unsure of the proper way to use the command. Can someone suggest the best way

Re: proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box

2005-05-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
/usbdrive/dumps. I am using the .../backups directory to do a daily backup of selected directories from the P4 box and I want to put my dumps from the in the .../dumps directory. I read the man page for dump but I'm still a little unsure of the proper way to use the command. Can someone

Re: proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box

2005-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/rootdump.20050510 / might be what you want. That would get you a dump of the whole root filesystem. If you have another file system such as /usr then a second part like dump

dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-06 Thread Andy Firman
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

Re: dump/restore over ssh question

2005-05-06 Thread Xian
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

crash dump

2005-04-28 Thread Wei Chong
Hi, I compiled my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE kernel with options KDB, DDB makeoptions DEBUG=-g and wrote a kernel module that does nothing but call panic() upon its loading, to try experimenting on crash kernel debugger and crash dump. Upon kldload the module, KDB was invoked and I was dropped

dump question

2005-04-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hi, Need some reassurance on this: # dump -h0 -0f - /usr | gzip /filelocation/filename.dump.gz Will this produce a good dumpfile of /usr ? I mean, witghout gzip it would have probably be something like dump -h0 -0f /filelocation/filename.dump /tmp am I right? Because I am a little short

Re: dump question

2005-04-07 Thread Martin Petraschek
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:47:59 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: # dump -h0 -0f - /usr | gzip /filelocation/filename.dump.gz Will this produce a good dumpfile of /usr ? I mean, witghout gzip it would have probably be something like dump -h0 -0f /filelocation/filename.dump /tmp am I right? Because I

Compaq/HP Evo d310 - register dump upon booting Install-CD

2005-03-24 Thread Ewald Jenisch
/i386 bootstrap loader. In effect I get a register dump followed by BTX halted. I've already changed/set/reset every possible setting in the BIOS, changed the harddisk, used another memory - the problem remains the same. Interestingly this system runs under Windows without any problems. BTW, I've

Re: Compaq/HP Evo d310 - register dump upon booting Install-CD

2005-03-24 Thread Ciprian BADESCU
to the FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader. In effect I get a register dump followed by BTX halted. Hi, I saw the same subject on the link bellow(try to disable DMA): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027279.html --- Ciprian Badescu

issue with dump

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Huff
When I do this: huff@ dump 0 -L -a -u -f /dev/sa0 /usr I get this: huff@ ps -ax | grep dump 84349 p4 S+ 0:14.07 dump 0 -L -a -u -f /dev/sa0 /usr (dump) 84357 p4 S+ 1:39.84 dump: /dev/da1s1d: pass 4: 11.97% done, finished in 4 84358 p4 DL+0:32.80 dump 0 -L

remote dump via ssh

2005-02-28 Thread John
Hi folks I want to level 0 dump a remote partition onto a large local disk. There's not enough space on the remote machine to dump to a file then sftp over. It needs to dump via ssh. any ideas? lokking for an elegant one-line solution thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: remote dump via ssh

2005-02-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:41:51PM +, John typed: Hi folks I want to level 0 dump a remote partition onto a large local disk. There's not enough space on the remote machine to dump to a file then sftp over. It needs to dump via ssh. any ideas? lokking for an elegant one-line solution

Re: remote dump via ssh

2005-02-28 Thread John
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:41:51 +, John wrote Hi folks I want to level 0 dump a remote partition onto a large local disk. There's not enough space on the remote machine to dump to a file then sftp over. It needs to dump via ssh. any ideas? lokking for an elegant one-line solution

Re: ntpd core dump

2005-02-25 Thread Richard Danter
remove it then ntpd starts perfectly. This is rather odd as I still have a Linux box using the original file with no problems. It is also add that the result is a core dump rather than a nice error message in the syslog. But such is life. Thanks again, Rich

Re: ntpd core dump

2005-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the original file with no problems. It is also add that the result is a core dump rather than a nice error message in the syslog. But such is life. A newer version of ntpd has been imported since 5.2.1. Given that it was a technology preview release, maybe it's time to update the system

Re: ntpd core dump

2005-02-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have 5.3-RELEASE installed. I'm trying to run ntpd but I get a message in /var/log/messages that it exited on signal 11 (core dumped). Is there a known problem with this version or is there somethig wrong with my config file (below)?

ntpd core dump

2005-02-23 Thread Richard Danter
Hi all, I have 5.3-RELEASE installed. I'm trying to run ntpd but I get a message in /var/log/messages that it exited on signal 11 (core dumped). Is there a known problem with this version or is there somethig wrong with my config file (below)? This file is based on one I use on a Linux host

no crash dump generated

2005-02-16 Thread Roberto Nunnari
I'd like to get a crash dump and so I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b dumpdir=/usr/crash -bash-2.05b# ls -ld /usr/crash/ drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Feb 16 11:17 /usr/crash/ but I'm not getting any dump! /usr/crash is always empty. ..and the machine crashes quite

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Dover wrote: Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports:

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Dover
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:20:50 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Benjamin Dover
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:34:50 +0100, Darksidex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Dover escribió: | Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page | with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: | Feb 13

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Phil Schulz
On 02/14/05 02:48, Ben Dover wrote: Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-14 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:26:12AM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:20:50 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object

Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-13 Thread Ben Dover
Firefox is my browser of choice but every time I view a web page with a Flash object Firefox core dumps. The error is as follows: Feb 13 18:57:53 w00f kernel: pid 27652 (firefox-bin), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped). I have installed the following relevant ports: /usr/ports/www/firefox

Re: Flash causes Firefox to core dump, which ports should I have installed?

2005-02-13 Thread Remington
FreeBSD thishost 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Feb 10 10:43:38 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 This is a completely useless reply. I have had this problem for months. All ports are current, running www/flashplugin-mozilla. i core dump in both mozilla

Restoring a corrupted dump file

2005-02-02 Thread T. Hart
I recently dumped a file to a local hard drive before making some changes on the server. Shorty after dumping, my hard drive died, and I attempted to restore the files to a new hd. However, when I did this, I got a checksum error, and a statement saying Tape is not a dump tape. I'm guessing

Elegant way to map UID's and GID's on dump/restore?

2005-01-28 Thread John
these in the dump/restore process, I'd love to know about it. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Cannot dump. No dump device defined while using sysinstall

2005-01-21 Thread Ben Salem
Ben Salem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:40:59 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Salem To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot dump. No dump device defined while using sysinstall After booting w/ floppies, installation with 5.3-RELEASE fails in /stand/sysinstall when using fdisk

Re: Backups / Dump etc

2005-01-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: John writes: J If you are running FreeBSD 5.x, you get the cool L option on J dump which will automatically snapshot the mounted filesystems. What exactly is meant by a snapshot, and how much extra disk space does

Problems with dump of an atacontrol-ed RAID1 array

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I have an ICH6 SATA RAID controller that I have set up with atacontrol to behave as a RAID1 array. The array (ar0) consists of ad4 and ad6. Last night I started a dump like so: # dump -0Luaf /dev/da0s1 / to *hopefully* dump my root filesystem (ar0s1a) to a usb storage device. Now here is where

dump performance

2005-01-15 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm following the procedure in the NEW-HUGE-DISK FAQ entry to move my system to bigger disks. In a nutshell, the dump/restore combo recommended there seems painfully slow. For example, I have newfs-ed the partition which is to become /usr with the newfs default parameters and mounted

Re: dump performance

2005-01-15 Thread Toomas Aas
Toomas Aas wrote: I'm following the procedure in the NEW-HUGE-DISK FAQ entry to move my system to bigger disks. How lame of me. I forgot to mention my OS version. It is 4.10-RELEASE-p5. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dump performance

2005-01-15 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: # cd /mnt/usr # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - Are these speeds normal for dump, or am I missing something? I would think not, but let's find out. When you are running the above series of commands, can you instead do this: # cd /mnt/usr # mount # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf

Re: dump performance

2005-01-15 Thread Derek
Derek wrote: I would think not, but let's find out. When you are running the above series of commands, can you instead do this: # cd /mnt/usr # mount # dump 0af - /usr | restore xf - # iostat -c10 Ooooh! And: sysctl hw.ata ___ freebsd-questions

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