[OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

Kim Kimball dhk@ccre.com
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:44:40 -0600


The backup dump command has "-append" as an option.

Do you know if this was used when the dumps were created?


Gerald Macinenti wrote:
> Carsten Schulz-Key wrote:
>> Gerald Macinenti wrote:
>>> When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps 
>>> on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can 
>>> sucessfully restore the last full dump but increments are not 
>>> appended, I have the following error in butc output:
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>> It seems, you're encountering the following problem: 
>> http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-February/025284.html
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>> You have to use separate dump files if you want to do incremental 
>> dumps :-( ...
> ok, thank you very much, sad news...
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> Is there any plan to develop an append-to-file feature?
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> Cheers
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