Generic Problem with Ultrix/BSD dump/restore

[Gordon Vickers]

In article <992 at cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>Is there are known problem with using dump/restore when processing a large
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>Ah yes, Ultrix 1.2, running on a poor little VAX 11/750.
>-- 
>George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr

  We too are running Ultrix 1.2 on a poor little VAX 11/750 (not so bad when
 you are the sole user though).

  I know of no problems with restore, but dump(1) does have a bug carried
 over from Ultrix 1.1 .  Dump(1) does not correctly compute the amount of
 tape required and can reach end of tape unexectedly early. When this
 occures, dump stops and prompts the operator with a messages asking weather
 the process should be aborted.
  The work-around for this is to specify a smaller tape size (I specify
 a tape size of 2200 :  dump 0s 2200 filesystem   ). 

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