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Subject: Re: [Dump-users] restore: Incremental tape too high
From: Tom Yates <madhatter () teaparty ! net>
Date: 2010-06-10 13:04:45
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.2.00.1006101311080.866 () risby ! home ! teaparty ! net
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Stelian Pop wrote:
> 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
it's extremely useful just to know i'm thinking about the right error -
thank you for that.
> : (in restore.c:
> if (hdr.dumpdate != dumptime)
> errx(1, "Incremental tape too %s",
> (hdr.dumpdate < dumptime) ? "low" : "high");
[...]
> I'm not sure you can do this without modifying the source code
> (commenting out the above test).
i would be very happy to do that, and if this crops up again i may well do
that. i thought about it myself, but couldn't be sure i wasn't breaking
some other important test at the same time, which uncertainty you have
removed for me.
> 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.
the man page is seriously unclear that -T can be used in that way, but now
i know that it can, i'm completely sorted for next time.
in the event, i did some find-based trickery to confirm that there existed
no file which (a) had been modified in the eight-minute window between
breaking and dumping, and (b) had not since been re-modified, so i decided
it was safe for me to revert /etc/dumpdates and do a new incremental.
but if my window had been longer or i hadn't thought to do that test, your
input would have completely saved me. thank you!
--
Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net
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