Hi Paul,
Funny that you mention tar. The reason why I chose dump is that dump was
supposed to handle open files better than tar. Plus, I don't like the idea
of atime being updated because of a backup.
Anyway, I couldn't find anything about this in the changelogs of
dump/restore between my version and the latest one. Plus, I think this
would be a rather silly bug, as I can't imagine too many people unmounting
their filesystems before running dump...
Maybe I should consider switching to tar. In the meantime, let's hope I
won't have to do a restore from scratch...
I checked the tapes, and there are no restoresymtables on it anywhere.
Thanks for your help so far.
Kind regards,
Hans van Zijst
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:06, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> AFAIK, this wouldn't have the effect of the message "Incremental dump
> too low". Because dump dumps the diskblocks themselves, an active
> filesystem could screw up the dumpprocess itself. The restore command
> would get confused, but not about deciding which level it expects.
>
> The restore process should leave a file "restoresymtable" in the root
> directory to pass information between incremental restore passes.
> Could it be that such a file was restored from the level 0,
> overwriting the current one and indicating that a level 2 or more
> was expected?
>
> ps. I switched to tar a long time ago, mainly because I run a mixed
> environment and I need to be able to restore onto a completely different
> architecture.
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