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Old 08-31-2006, 09:42 PM   #1
mojoman
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Help with Large DUMP file.


Hello,

I have made an full backup of a partition using Dump,
on RHEL. At the time I did not notice the size of the dump file, until
too late. My problem now is I need to restore some imnportant
info from that dump. The dump file is a little over 6Gb in size.
The Restore command cannot read it, (wont initialize symbol table).
So I copied it across the network to a Solaris mcahine, and tried
ufsrestore. Same problem. From what I have read, this is a problem
with the size of the file to be restored.

My questions are:

Are there any util's that can handle a huge dump?

Is there a way to split the file into smaller pieces?

Is there any other way of approaching this problem?


Thanks
 
Old 09-06-2006, 03:27 AM   #2
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There is the program "split". That will part your dump into chunks. Extracting your data from those will be a mighty task (read: near impossible except for file system exerts). Sorry, no answers for your other questions.
 
  


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