Need assistance with afio problem.
Bill Campbell
bill at camco.Celestial.COM
Tue May 28 04:11:31 AEST 1991
In <446 at yonder.UUCP> michael at yonder.UUCP (Michael E. Haws) writes:
:I am trying to use afio to back up my 386 based SCO Xenix 2.3.2 system.
:The command I use is
:find /usr /u -print | afio -oZ -L/back/log | dd of=/dev/rct0 ibs=10b obs=1000b
:Part way thru the backup, messages appear in the log file something to the
:effect of "File table overflow" repeated many times. On the console the
:message "Inode table overflow" appears many times. When the job
:completes the "df" command shows 1000's of free inodes. I suspect it may
:have something to do with the compressing of the data but does any one know
:for sure.
I've used afio extensively here for backups and use:
find . -print | afio -ov -c 100 -f -s <tapesize_in_blocks> /dev/rct0
This handles multiple volumes properly, is fast, and has never
failed on any of my systems. What more can I ask?
Bill
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