Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland wrote:
Hi lads,
Having a wee bit of bother decrypting a dump before a restore following
a 4.0 -> 4.1 migration on i386. Different box, same hardware apart from
a bigger disk.
Solved, was revenge of the wonkey donkey sysadmin (me).
Nothing to do with decryption.
As I was getting nowhere with /home, I had a go with other slices, such
as /var/mail. Decrypted fine using the same commands as before, but
bitched about inodes not found on the tape on restore.
I finally figured out what I'd done wrong:
As the 4.0 box ran out of space, I added another small drive as tmp.
I had my script dump to that, then when done, move the dump to /var,
thus over-writing last week/months dump when finished.
Problem was that I had the small drive mounted async, not very clever
when the point of a backup system is to recover in the event of .....
...whatever....
As the old box was not yet "re-purposed" I dumped through ssh via an
x-over cable and restored fine.
Shame....
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Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone +44 (0) 1506 673024 5-digit shortdial:x73024
Sun Remote Support Centre, Linlithgow, Scotland, UK
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