Re: [Dump-users] restore: Incremental tape too high

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:45:41PM +0100, Tom Yates wrote:

> i'm getting this when i try to restore a level 1 dump on top of a level 0.
[...]
> am i right in thinking that the error is trying to tell me that the 
> incremental "pre-dates" the full backup?

Yes: (in restore.c:
	if (hdr.dumpdate != dumptime)
		errx(1, "Incremental tape too %s",
			(hdr.dumpdate < dumptime) ?  "low" : "high");

> if so, is there any way to tell 
> restore to ignore that and just do the restore?

I'm not sure you can do this without modifying the source code
(commenting out the above test).

The next time I suggest you use the -T option of dump to set the
dump time to the date when the mirrors were broken.

Stelian.
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