Re: Dump hangs on my system
Pete Templin wrote:
>
> My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first
> "dump":
>
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Apr 2 00:11:29 1997
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rft0
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 14710 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s).
> DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>
> ps listing:
> root 722 92.1 0.6 1016 400 p3 R 00:11 464:07 /usr/local/sbin/dump
>
> Any ideas, suggestions on how to fix? There have been no recent changes
> to the system, except for the removal of some development libraries via
> dselect.
>
I'd try to run it with strace, piping the output somewhere so you
can read it and find out where it's hanging.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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