Re: dump error 8-(

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:48:35 BST "=?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Delker?=" 
(Joerg.Delker@onix.de) wrote:

> Can anybody help on this?
> 
> All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error:
> 
>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda3 (/) to /dev/null
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 182460 tape blocks on 0.36 tape(s).
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>   DUMP: master/slave protocol botched.
>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I have this sometimes when the partition I dump isn't in /etc/dumpdates.
Create a dummy /etc/dumpdates line for your partition in /etc/dumpdates.
Additionnaly, you might want to report this as a bug.

Phil.



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