Hi Joe,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:22:05PM -0600, Joe Bacom wrote:
> Hi Folks;
> I am using the following xfsdump command to dump system backups to 650m files
> so they will fit on CD. xfsdump does not seem to be creating individual
> files but rather a single file.
> xfsdump -d 650 -f usr.xfsdump.3-30-2002 -l 0 -p 30 -L "Usr Dump 3/30/2002"
> -T
> /usr
>
> Creates a 2.4G file
> also I set the SGI_XFSDUMP_SKIP_FILE attribute on each of my dump files so
> that I could backup the partition that the dump files were on and xfsdump did
> not ignore them at but gave the error:
> xfsdump: WARNING: could not open regular file ino 99652 mode 0x000081a4:
> File
> too large: not dumped
> any ideas?
> Joe
Questions
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There are 3 parts to this question:
a) -d doesn't work
b) SGI_XFSDUMP_SKIP_FILE doesn't work
c) why is the warning msg about large file produced
Answers
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(a) -d is used to specify the size of "media files" for tapes.
This is _not_ the same as a dump to a disk file. Dumps to a disk file,
always use one "media file".
Check out: xfsdump/doc/xfsdump.html
Writing to multiple disk files (at once), is only supported by xfsdump on
IRIX which has the multiple thread support.
(b) It looks like you forgot the -e option.
(c) Is a bug in xfsdump/libhandle.
This will be fixed shortly.
--Tim
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