Re: [Dump-users] Verify with -Mf stalls asking for next tape

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:49 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
<st...@po...> wrote:

> The only cause I can think of is that you had an earlier comparision
> error causing the current file to be skipped instead of comparing, and
> this is why curfile.action == SKIP. Did restore report some compare
> errors before asking for the next volume ?

I think so. I suspect tmpwatch ran between the backup and verify, and so a 
file in /tmp was missing that had been backed up just at the end of one of 
the multi-files. Here's what I'm seeing:

/sbin/restore: unable to stat ./tmp/Transfer.h: No such file or directory
/sbin/restore: unable to stat ./tmp/rstdir1204185728-iRW4Q2: No such file 
or directory
/sbin/restore: unable to stat ./tmp/rstmode1204185728-iixqxV: No such file 
or directory
You have read volumes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes): Dump   date: Sun Mar  9 
00:17:08 2008

(I should add /tmp to the exclude list with chattr. But I can see this 
happening with other files.)