Hello,
I've been dumping my filer to a remote HP DDS-4 drive on a RedHat Linux machine. It's been working great. But now I have more data on my filer than one DDS-4 tape will hold for a level-0 dump.
Are there any issues with spanning more than one tape for a dump via rmt? Here is the output of my dump run:
DUMP: Dumping tape file 1 on /dev/nst0 DUMP: creating "/vol/vol0/../snapshot_for_backup.3" snapshot. DUMP: Using Full Volume Dump DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Apr 23 10:40:26 2001. DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch. DUMP: Dumping /vol/vol0/ to dumper DUMP: mapping (Pass I)[regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II)[directories] DUMP: estimated 24452615 KB. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Mon Apr 23 10:46:54 2001 : We have written 560012 KB.
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DUMP: Mon Apr 23 12:37:04 2001 : We have written 21097444 KB. DUMP: Remote write failed: RMT bad response from client DUMP: DUMP IS ABORTED DUMP: Deleting "/vol/vol0/../snapshot_for_backup.3" snapshot.
Is there a way I can have dump prompt me to change volumes? I haven't been able to find much information on the subject.
Hi Andrew, If you run dump on the console (or telnet) of your filer, it will prompt you to load another tape (local attached or rmt drive).
If you run via 'rsh' it aborts because it's afraid that you won't notice the window that it's just sitting in and waiting for feedback.
The negative about running dump on the console, of course, is that it will prevent you from running anything else on the console during the course of the dump. Of course, you can still run other maintenance commands via the rsh or FilerView.
Stephen Manley DAM and NDMP guy who votes for "Mary Poppins" over "Sound of Music"