Ahhh I was enlightened by you and Andy Hayward ;) If it is memory consumption is the problem, adding a swapfile via swapon could help.
Andreas. On 12/15/06, Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might need to compile a kernel with a large default data segment size, make sure tmp has enough room, or set TMPDIR/TEMPDIR for restore. Dump/resture should DTRT. rsync -H will as well, but again, going back to needing lots of memory to store all that hardlink info... On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:04:25PM +0100, Andreas Maus wrote: > Hi. > > Just a wild guess ... > Do you tried rsync? > (Although I don't know how rsync deals with _hard_ links). > > HTH, > > Andreas. > > > On 12/15/06, Matthias Bertschy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > > > > > > -- > Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions? > Calvin : Do I look like a sissy? > > > !DSPAM:45831ea2743981250431860! >
-- Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions? Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
