Re: [Dump-users] rstdir* question

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

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:57:46AM -0700, Ken Godee wrote:

> >>I'm wondering what happens when it runs out of space, it didn't
> >>abort and seemed to finish ok, but did it really?
> >>If not, shouldn't of aborted?
> >
> >It should have. Looking at the code is seems like it should
> >have aborted with something like:
> >	"cannot write to file /tmp/rstdir..."
> >
> 
> I'm probally wrong here. It probally did abort,
> I forgot the script is in a "for loop" probally
> just continued on to next dump.

I've created a 300k temp filesystem and used it as the temp
directory:

# df /mnt/toto/
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/tmp/FILE                  290        13       262   5% /mnt/toto
# restore ifT home.dump.001 /mnt/toto/ 
restore: cannot write to file /mnt/toto//rstdir1080569410-aVo9aJ: No space left on device

So it does seem to work as it should...

> >>My real concern would be during an actual restore, I'm
> >>sure the same would happen.
> >
> >Do you use the latest version of restore ?
> 0.4b36
> 
> I'm just looking forward at diaster recovery
> and I'll just have to make sure that whatever CD solution
> I use will have kernel support for ram disks or make a small partition
> available.

It's always a good idea to think at those things *before* you
really need to restore :)

> Redhat's default partition scheme is nutty, one big root partition
> and several systems I need to back up have been set up this way.
> Very dangerous, well maybe as soon as I get some time I'll add
> to the list.

Indeed. 

Stelian.
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