Questions tagged [dump]
In computing, a dump refers to recording the contents of the working memory of a computer program or operating system at a specific time, generally when it has terminated abnormally (crashed). Dumps are written to file and can be useful in debugging and diagnosing the crash that prompted the dump.
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Programme that accepts stdin, then writes to a datetime stamped file?
I wonder is there a programme that'll do what I want. This is like an streaming log rotation programme. For the linux/unix command line.
Let's say I have some input that is streaming some data. I ...
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Splitting up SQL server dump
Is there a way how to split up dump of whole database server (with such tables as 'mysql' or 'information_schema') to single databases?
Looking for better way than insert this whole dump and export ...
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ext2 dump/restore problem
I am running a mailserver with maildir storage. This means that quite a lot of files are created and I have just run out of inodes. AFAIK there is no magic command to increase number of inodes on ext# ...
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Accents not properly reported in MySQL dump
I'm using MySQL 5.1.58 on Debian Sqeeze and I'm trying to restore the dump of a database. Once it is restored I noticed that all the accented chars had become other chars as ù or è: completely ...
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How can I estimate the final size and processing time necessary to dump my entire repo?
Assume an SVN setup that consists of a single repo with nested project folders, something like this:
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- trunk
- - projectA
- - - trunk
- - - - ...
- - - branches
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How do I save a dump file of a running process to a specific disk location?
In the Windows 7 task manager, I can create a dump file of a running process by right-clicking the process entry and selecting "Create Dump File". By default, this saves the file to the logged-on ...
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What is the best way to get a dump of a single process in Windows Server 2003?
I've got a process in Windows Server 2003 that I want to get a dump of, as it is taking up way more RAM than it should. It's been suggested that I use procdump, userdump, or install windbg. I would ...
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How do I dump view schemas for a MySQL database?
I have a MySQL database for which I wish to dump schemas for views. How do I do this? I tried mysqldump with --no-data, but that only dumps table schemas.
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cygwin's xd. what package is it in? [closed]
I am looking for the unix utility xd for Cygwin. What package do I need to install?
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How can I use a batch file to dump only the last few weeks' revisions in SVN?
We were previously backing up our full SVN dump each night, but the repository has now become too large.
If I was willing to cut off the revision history at say 2 weeks, how would I go about making a ...
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FreeBSD Dump with cURL/rsync
I'm trying to create a backup script using FreeBSD's dump to take a snapshot of a filesystem, but instead of storing the snapshot on disk I want to pipe the output from dump into cURL or rsync so its ...
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Linux dump file - can it be read on Windows system?
Is there a way to mount/read linux file created with /sbin/dump under Windows system?
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CentOS /sbin/dump to FTP
I want to do full backup of my cloud image to my FTP server by using this command:
/sbin/dump -0uan -f - / | gzip -9
How do I send this to FTP server just by adding | ftp ... ?
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Can I delete java dump files (java core dump, heap dump, snap dump, etc)
Can dump files like java core dump, heap dump, snap dump, be deleted? They are occupying lots of space on the server.
Is there any usage of this file? Will anything happen on production servers if i ...
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Postgresql migration without dump
Greetings,
after a hdd failure, I have a PostgreSQL DB restored, but OS is not working. I try to copy it to another server with a newer version of PostgreSQL but all I managed to get is:
An old ...
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procdump on w3wp.exe: Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed
I'm having a problem with an IIS application that occasionally spikes up in CPU usage, and am trying to use procdump to get a memory dump for examination. I'm running "procdump.exe -64 -mA 9999" ...
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kill SIGABRT does not generate core file from daemon started from crontab
I am running CentOS 5.5 and working on server application that sometimes I need to force core dump so I can see what is going on. If I start my server from shell and send kill SIGABRT, a core file is ...
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Export and import a PostgreSQL database with a different name?
Is there a way to export a PostgreSQL database and later import it with another name?
I'm using PostgreSQL with Rails and I often export the data from production, where the database is called ...
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How to dump the GPT under Ubuntu Lucid?
Is there a tool on Ubuntu Lucid which can dump the GPT (GUID partition table) of a block device in a human-readable form? The most important information I'm interested in is the byte offset of each ...
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How to dump a stream for a defined amount of time on a schedule basis
I have a video stream from a video4linux device
/dev/dsp/adapter0/dvr0
I want to programmatically dump this stream for a predefined amount of time.
I think to schedule the jobs I might use cron and ...
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Capturing text from windows applications
I had an application a while back that would allow me to dump text from any application on screen to a text file. Unfortunately, I used it so rarely that I don't remember what the name of it was. I ...
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Page files and dump files and D: drives on Windows Server 2008
I have a Windows 2008 server with 7.5 GB of RAM and I want to get complete crash dumps off it.
I started by moving the page file mostly off the C: drive - I left a small 64-MB page file on the C: ...
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Using the CTRL - SCROLL LOCK key combination to cause a system dump
We have a Windows 2008 r2 server that we connect to via Remote Desktop Connection.
We want to use the "Crash on Ctrl-ScrollLock" key combination as described here (a vendor is asking us to send ...
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How does one restore dump of block device in Linux
Lets say I create a dump of a block device like so
dump -0 -A L0.archive -f L0.dump /dev/sde1
Now in this case sde1 is not mounted, as to not be live. So how can I restore sde1 from the other ...
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Does anybody have experience with Dump(8) and the ext4 fs
I have done some research online and some people claim dump/restore have good ext4 support and others claim the system is broken and restores come back corrupt. My question is, do they work well ...
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Linux application crashes, no core dump while "ulimit -c unlimited" and "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" are set
Folks, my server written in C++ periodically crashes but produces no core dump at all.
Core dumps are produced for sure: "ulimit -c" and "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" are set properly.
The weird ...
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No coredumps for daemons started at boot by init.d on Ubuntu
How can I get daemons started by init.d at boot to coredump on Ubuntu? This is what I have done so far...
echo "ulimit -c unlimited" >> /etc/profile
mkdir /corefiles/
chmod 777 /corefiles/
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How to read Windows Server 2008 (x64, SP2) memory dumps?
My server suddenly started crashing every time I debug a chunk of code on my laptop which accesses the database on the server remotely. It's done it twice now, and I've stopped trying to debug my code ...
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Analyze contents of a dump file
Is it possible to extract some details from a file generated with the dump(8) command on a FreeBSD system? Preferably, I'd like to see the file sizes for each file inside, to see what exactly makes my ...
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restore -A usage
I have created a number of dump files using Linux dump(8), using the -A option to get a table of contents on disk (the backups are on tape). Now I'm trying to look into these archive files, using
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pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 43712886 in pg_toast_16418
After
$ pg_dumpall -U postgres -f /tmp/pgall.sql
I see following:
pg_dump: SQL command failed
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 43712886 in ...
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Sql database dumps failing every night
Hey guys, I have sql05 and my maintenance plan which backs up a database to an external storage SAN, has been failing every night.
Here is my error:
Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO ...
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Concurrent modification during backup: rsync vs dump vs tar vs?
I have a Linux log server where multiple applications write data. Data is written in bursts, and in a lot of different files. I need to make a backup of this mess, preferably preserving as much ...
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Is Apache stalled? /server-status shows over 240 requests like "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache (internal dummy connection)"
Some details:
Webserver: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e
OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
This is a FreeBSD Jail.
I believe I use the Apache 'prefork' MPM (I run the default for FreeBSD)...
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How to reliably take Java Heap Dumps?
My team is running into difficulties when trying to take good heap dumps triggered by OutOfMemoryErrors. For specific reasons we are currently taking the dumps with jmap called from a bash script ...
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Interpreting minidump files from Windows Server 2008
I have a couple of minidump files generated by blue screen crashes on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine. I have installed the debugging tools and I am able to look at the contents of these files. ...
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Check if backup dump has worked
If you backup a linux server using the dump command is there a way to check if the dump was actually succesful apart from witnessing the files have been created and are an appropriate size?
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Alternatives for heapdumps creation with higher performance than jmap?
I have to create heapdumps, which works nice with jmap. My problem is, that jmap takes very long to create the heapdump file. Especially when the heap is getting bigger (> 1GB) it is taking too long.
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Dump/Restore and Deleted files
Our Management told us we needed to wipe down some our drives, who knows why. We were told to delete certain documents and then backup the remaining files to a external medium, wipe then restore the ...
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PostgreSQL, update existing rows with pg_restore
I need to sync two PostgreSQL databases (some tables from development db to production db) sometimes.
So I came up with this script:
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pg_dump -a -F tar -t table1 -t table2 -U user1 dbname1 | \
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Dump output very small
So I made a dump of one of my drives today which totalled 171GB and did a level 0 dump which had a output size of 58GB.
I dont know why it was so small, but I wanted to ask if dump searches for a ...
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What's the meaning of consistent dataset? (MySQL)
I do daily backups of my mysql databases with mysqldump+scheduled tasks
but, as i can read on this answer, mysqldump does not guarantee a consistent dataset... what's the meaning?
That means that if ...
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How can I see what is on line 149351 of a large file?
I am trying to import a large MySQL dump file and am getting a consistent error on a certain line 149,351 (out of 4207442). I would like to see what that line is.
The best way I have found to do ...
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