On 03/08/11 16:20, Brett Lymn wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:19PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
Is this worthy of a bug report or is there a peback afoot here?
Unlikely to be a bug more likely that you did a dump of a file system
that was changing while the dump was in progress. This breaks the
backup and produces the sort of symptoms you are seeing when trying to
do a restore.
That's not very likely since this is from my OpenBSD workstation at work
taken in the middle of the night when I'm not there and httpd is only
set up to listen on localhost.
Regardless, the problem I was writing about is that restore is asking
for a next volume and telling me to enter "none" if there are no more
tapes and when I enter none, or "none" or any other combination of none,
it says:
"You have read volumes: 1
Specify next volume #: none
Volume number invalid: none
Specify next volume #: none
Volume number invalid: none
If I enter the non-existent volume number of 2, it tells me "Cannot open
2" and then asks for the next volume.
The only way I found out of this loop is to ctrl-c.
That's the bug I'm asking about, but if what you write above is correct
my belief that dump is an adequate backup is now in question. No where
in the dump man page does it say that and that certainly flies in the
face of everything I thought I knew about how dump does its job.
Thanks
Jeff
