Re: [Dump-users] mode file too large?

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

--On Friday, January 04, 2008 2:15 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
<st...@po...> wrote:

> Yes. This error is probably caused by the fact that your
> dump is huge and the mode file has exceeded 2 GB in size.
>
> As the error says, since restore cannot open the modefile,
> it will not be able to set the mode, owner and time information on
> any of the restored file.
>
> If you modify restore/dirs.c and replace the two occurences of:
> 	mf = fopen(modefile, "r");
> with:
> 	mf = FOPEN(modefile, "r");
> the problem should be hopefully fixed.

Thankfully the issue is in restore, not dump, so at least my existing 
backups are likely ok. I'll make the change....