I've been looking at using fss with dump to prevent filesystem skew when taking backups. The method explained in the NetBSD Guide[1] looks promising, however I'm experiencing immediate host reboots when running the initial fssconfig command. Unfortunately I don't have any debugging enabled, but would be happy to turn on some knobs to see what's going on if that helps. The system itself is a VirtualBox VM running the following: |NetBSD mangala 5.1.2 NetBSD 5.1.2 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Feb 2 12:12:28 UTC 2012 builds%b7.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-2-RELEASE/amd64/201202021012Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 The head of the dmesg output is as follows: |Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 | The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. |Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 | The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | |NetBSD 5.1.2 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Feb 2 12:12:28 UTC 2012 | builds%b7.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-2-RELEASE/amd64/201202021012Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC |total memory = 511 MB |avail memory = 481 MB |timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec |timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 |SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xe1000 (9 entries) |innotek GmbH VirtualBox (1.2) |mainbus0 (root) : : Unfortunately it looks like VirtualBox must clear the memory area used for dmesg as after the reboot it had no content remaining from the previous session I'll see whether I get the same behaviour in a 6.0 VM. Regards, Malcolm [1] http://wiki.netbsd.org/the_netbsd_system_manager__39__s_manual/#index32h2 -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch%mjch.net@localhost left blank
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