Have you tried using cpio in passthrough mode? I've used CPIO on big
systems before with success, although admittedly not on OpenBSD ..
Matthias Bertschy wrote:
OpenBSD 3.7 - i386
Pentium 4 3GHz - 1GB RAM - 2GB swap
Hello list,
For the past 3 weeks, I have been working on a difficult problem:
moving a backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) pool from a RAID0
to a big disk, in order to free the RAID0 before rebuilding a RAID5.
The RAID0 has one partition, its size is 2112984700 blocks
(512-blocks), roughly 1008GB, which is close to the maximum allowed by
ffs. The big disk is 300GB.
I need to move 96GB of data which are, due to backuppc design, full of
hardlinks!
So far, I have tried to use:
1) dd: impossible because the partitions cannot be the same size
(and the RAID5 won't be the same size as the RAID0)
2) pax -rw: after transferring almost 70GB, it bails out with a
"Segmentation fault"
3) tar to archive: after something like 60GB, it complains with
some "file name too long" errors
4) gtar to archive (from package gtar-1.15.1p0-static.tgz): ends up
with a "gtar: memory exhauted" error
5) dump to file: successful but
5') restore from file: stops even before starting due to a "no
memory for entry table" error (there is still a lot of unused memory
and swap - and no ulimit)
Any help is appreciated because I really don't know what to do next.
Matthias Bertschy
Echo Technologies SA
