More info: ufsrestore balking on large file, will it continue ok?

From: Broun, Bevan (brounb@adi-limited.com)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 04:41:05 EDT


the dump finished, but the "ufsrestore -xf -" didnt ask the usual "set
permissions on ." question, so looks like it failed. Please still send info
if you can.

BB

on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +1000, Broun, Bevan <brounb@adi-limited.com> wrote:
> Im on a solaris 8 box. It has not got the most recent patches but has had a
> few. The machine is about a year old and would have had the most recent
> recommended patches applied at install time.
>
> Im doing a "ufsdump | ufsrestore" and got:
> write error extracting inode 35143967, name
> ./DIRNAME/FILENAME
> write: File too large
>
>
> I am dumping from a ufs file system (and we are about 75% thru) to a veritas
> fs (but still using ufsrestore). I dont believe anything special has been
> done with respect to large files when making the ufs file system and
> certain that nothing was done regarding when making the veritas file system
> for large files.
>
> ls -l DIRNAME/FILENAME gives
> -rw-r----- 1 USER GROUP 16363163648 DIRNAME/FILENAME
>
> There seems to be other files in the same dir that are also large.
>
> Im reaching a critical point in a server change over and am seeking
> assurance and ufsrestore will continue and only leave out the large files.
> Ive done a "ls -ltrc" in the directory where the files should be landing
> and nothing is newer then the attempt to write this file.
>
> Im not seeing an increase in kilobytes used on the destination file system.
>
> I suspect all is ok and ufsrestore is having a hard time with some more
> large files. But I just havnt seen and progress and am getting scared.
>
> Can anyone calm my fears?
>
> TIA
>
> BTW - I cant confirm via "df" an seeing number of files on each file system
> as Im dumping parts of the files system and one dir we are leaving behind
> contains a huge but unknown number of small files. I should be able to
> check with a count some time.
>
> BB
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