topic Re: ERROR backing up using DUMP in Operating System - HP-UX

ERROR backing up using DUMP

Sonny Le — Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:47:22 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am using hpux 11.11. Just recently mounted a 34gig hard drive. Tried to back up the mount point on the 34gig.

I got the error as follow:

DUMP: Dumping /dev/vg03/ri3vol1 (/mnt4) to /dev/rmt/0mn
DUMP: This is an HP long file name filesystem
DUMP: ERROR: cannot dump a large files filesystem
DUMP: ERROR: /dev/vg03/ri3vol1 is an HP large file filesystem
DUMP: the ENTIRE dump is aborted

Any helps would be greatly appreciated...

Sonny

Re: ERROR backing up using DUMP

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:51:03 GMT

The message tells the story here.

The utility you are using can NOT dump files bigger than 2 Gigabytes on a tape.

Sorry, thank you for playing, try another utility.

Try fbackup.

Sam Backup & Recovery Choose a device back up files and directories interactively.

Omniback/Dataprotector will work if you have that.

SEP

Re: ERROR backing up using DUMP

twang — Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:09:44 GMT

Take a look at warning section of "dump"'s manpage:
WARNINGS
dump will not backup a file system containing large files.

Re: ERROR backing up using DUMP

T G Manikandan — Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:10:56 GMT

You need to use
fbackup for support for large files.

Native tools does not support large files i.e. >2GB tar,cpio

you can get the GNU version of tar which can support large files from here

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnome/guiTAR-0.1.4/

Re: ERROR backing up using DUMP

Patrick Wallek — Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:45:32 GMT

If you absolutely MUST use dump and are absolutely CERTAIN that you DON'T have any files larger than 2GB on your system you could try turning off largefiles support for this mountpoint.

# fsadm -o nolargefiles /mountpointname

This may solve your problem, but if you need largefiles support, use fbackup as recommended above.