Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f5C19Fk14967 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:09:15 -0700 Received: from sgi.com (sgi.SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5C19EV14964 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:09:14 -0700 Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id SAA08889 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:09:06 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com) Received: from omen.melbourne.sgi.com (omen.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.139]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA23513; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:07:40 +1000 From: ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com (Ivan Rayner) Received: from localhost (ivanr@localhost) by omen.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05318; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:07:39 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: omen.melbourne.sgi.com: ivanr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:07:39 +1000 To: Russel Ingram cc: Subject: Re: xfsdump, paride tape, and -m option In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Russel Ingram wrote: > > The argument to -b should be bytes, so 16k would be 16384 not 16. > > > > If this doesn't fix your problem, could you use -v5 to get verbose output. > > (This might produce alot of output, so you should redirect it to a file.) > > > > Ivan > > > Ok, I ran it again with the right sysntax on the -b option. Here's the > command I gave it: > > xfsdump -v5 -m -b 32k -o -F -E -l0 -M"gumby" -L"tmp" -f /dev/tape -s tmp / The argument to -b should be bytes, so 32k would be '32768' not '32k'. Let me know if this helps. Ivan -- Ivan Rayner ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com