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Hi guys, I have this fixation to have my "graphic design shop" based on FreeBSD. I understand someone might think that I am crazy, but I'd like to do it not matter what. Now the majority of the Open Source Design software (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, etc...) constantly leave huge core dump. This...

As part of a larger project of reinstalling a server and moving from UFS to ZFS on my VPS, I decided I would back things up - using dump. Is there any way I can inspect the blob it outputs? I'd like to verify what's in there and what would be restored at a later time before wiping the current...

Hello! I have a backup of filesystem produced by a dump tool from base system. Is is possible to mount dump file like an ISO image?

Hello everyone, I'm a little stuck - I have an old important PC which doesn't run anymore. I have dump Backups of the following: The System running was: I have listings of bsdlabel, dmesg, fstab and gpart for the boot drive. I've downloaded the 7.2-RELEASE dvd1 and livefs.iso but I am...

Hello FreeBSD 9.1 stable. gpart show => 34 2147483581 da0 GPT (1.0T) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 2957184 2 freebsd-ufs (1.4G) 2957346 2097152 3 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 5054498 2116026368 4 freebsd-ufs (1T) 2121080866...

I've done some updates to my packages and recently upgraded from 13.2-p3 to p4 and noticed that when I reboot or turn on from a cold boot, savecore saves a core dump for some reason. The system appears perfectly normal the rest of the time; it has no apparent panic during the...

Hello, I'm trying to find the definition of FreeBSD's DUMP/RESTORE file structure. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Google is determined to point me towards BSODs, core dumps, the man page for dump, etc, everything exept what I need. TIA.

I am a relatively new user of FreeBSD. For the past 15 years I have been managing a small server farm all running Debian or Ubuntu. Not thrilled with the way these distributions have been progressing, so thought I would give FreeBSD a whirl. Some things in particular that piqued my interest are...

Hi everyone, this has been bugging me for several releases now. My Mate installation creates .core files in my home directory, even though I shut it down normally, I get no error messages and no bad behaviour. I understand that I can silence the whole mechanism by following...

I would like to migrate a virtual machine's filesystem onto a smaller virtual disk using dump. I have tried both using the 12.1-RELEASE installer in live CD mode, and also attaching the disks to a separate VM running 12.0-RELEASE, but dump keeps failing on me with "unknown file system". I try...

Hello@All I am using FreeBSD-CURRENT / HEAD release and I am always upgrading by make buildworld, after some Tests/Upgrades my backup scripts ran into Errors "dump -0Lauf ... " to NFS Mount. dmesg: "pid 1343 (dump), uid 0: exited on signal 11" I looked on net for differences between...

Hi folks. Before updating FreeBSD 10.1 to current stable, I want to dump my current OS to an external USB drive, for future reference. I would like to be able to mount it on my Mac to poke around. Or I could img the volume to mount on my Mac as I need it. So in Disk Utility I formatted the...

Hello all, At irregular intervals I have this problem of www/firefox (compiled from ports) closing unexpectedly. It happens across all four Firefox profiles. After it closes I can find a 'firefox.core' file in various directories. When I launch Firefox from the shells/fish shell and the process...

I want to use dump and restore. But I think I don't understand well something. I ran dump -0 -C16 -Laf /home/backup/hdd/dumps/ssdhome.dump /dev/gpt/ssd-home - after ls in restore -f /home/backup/hdd/dumps/ssdhome.dump -i - it's okay. Incremental dump after some seconds: dump -1 -C16 -Laf...