Re: xfsdump problems (fwd)

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@xxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW -- in the past I've had to pipe through dd on the remote machine to 
get dump-to-tape to work.  This was using tar and dump commands though...
command looked soemthign like:

tar zcvf - /dir | ssh $taper dd of=/dev/tape

--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:16 PM -0400 Jameel Akari 
<jakari@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Forgot to reply also to list.. some more followups...
<SNIP>
> It seems that it can't tell what blocksize the device is.. but DLT is
> variable-length blocksize.  I am using the syntax:
> # xfsdump -v5 -f root@spoonman:/dev/st1 /boot
>
> On the server attached to the DLT I see:
>
> Jun 11 17:17:04 spoonman kernel: st1: Failed to read 1048576 byte block
> with 245760 byte read.
> <SNIP>