Re: [Dump-users] Re: [Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b38 released. (non-dumped inodes)

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

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:54:20PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Friday, January 07, 2005 3:09 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
> <st...@po...> wrote:
> 
> >4.	Do not save directory entries to non-dumped inodes
> >	(excluded from dump). This will eliminate the 'missing
> >	file' warnings when doing 'restore -C'.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be working. I'm currently using 0.4b39 with the EA/ACL 
> patch, and I'm getting "not on tape" errors on the stuff I've excluded.

Silly question: are you using the 0.4b39 *dump* ? 
> 
> I'm using this to generate the exclude list (passed to dump with -E):
> 
> # exclude ISOs and RPM headers in local yum repository
> EXCLUDE_FILE=/var/tmp/dump-inodes-to-exclude
> find /opt/Fedora -type f -exec stat --format=%i {} \; > ${EXCLUDE_FILE}

Unrelated, but wouldn't it be simpler to exclude the whole directory ?

> 
> I've put a test backup of /opt/Fedora here:
> 
> <http://microprecisionautomation.com/DumpScripts/test4.dump001.bz2>

> The exclude list file is in the same web directory.
> 
> The command used:
> 
> ./restore -C -l -L 10000 -b 64 -Mf /tmp/test4.dump

I'll take a look at this tommorow (but I am unable to reproduce it
here at least with my setup).

Stelian.
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