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

From: Broun, Bevan <brounb_at_adi-limited.com>
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 21:28:11 EDT
Thanks to Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>, the only one to respond. Casper
said:
                                     
>You must do soemthing with veritas to make it work for large files.

which I knew. What I wanted to know was would ufsrestore continue restoring
files after this error. The answer is "no". ufsrestore continued to run
(but was asleep) and when the dump finished ufsrestore died with no more
files being written.

Nevermind. As I was dumping a subdir of the file system rather than the
whole thing I was able to move the directory containing the offending files
to another place and redo the dump/restore. I lost some time but had given
myself plenty of room for error and ended up finished the server change
over on schedule.

BB
                                                                   

on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:41:05PM +1000, Broun, Bevan <brounb@adi-limited.com> wrote:
> 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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