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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.

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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How to change naming of core dumps in unix-like operating systems?

I want to change naming of core dumps for a separate process and its childs or, if it is impossible, for all processes of a separate user. NOTE: I know that it is possible to change the naming for all users overwriting /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern…
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Create dump of database schema remotely

I have a connection to remote Mysql database. (i'm using MySQL Workbench). I'd like to copy whole structure of the database, (without data) to create identical structure on my local machine. Is it possible if I have only username and password to…
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How to make a full backup of an ubuntu root server with tar?

I am running ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a remote root server and almost the same setup on a development server over virtualbox. My goal is to backup the remote root server to an ftp-account. In case the hard drive failes I would then boot from a rescue…
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Server 2008 BSOD about once a week

I'm in quite a bind here, hopefully someone can help. Here's what I have: Dell R710 with one Xeon 2.7 GHz processor, 18GB Ram, Server 2008 x64 SP2 I'm running HyperV with about 5 servers. Starting in Jan I've had problems with crashing. First time…
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chcore command not taking effect

I am trying to change the behaviour of where core dump files get written to, as described here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/chcore.htm However, when I log in again, even though…
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Mongodump from slave only outputs 101 objects

I have a mongo 1.8.3 master/slave setup. slave replication works and tests (collection sizes, query results, updates) all pass. when i am trying to dump a collection from the slave that actually has more than a few million documents, mongodump only…
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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# filesystem (or am I wrong?) so I have to backup…
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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 user's temp directory. Is there a way to change…
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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 like to know what would be best to get a dmp file…
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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 stored remotely. I've got it working piped via…
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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 partition.
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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 partition while sde1 is unmounted.
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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 together, in your experience?
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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 thing is that I tried to kill the server manually…
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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 until I can read the memory dumps from the…
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