On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 11:47am, Chris Dahn wrote > Hello again. At the risk of being banned from the list forever for unending > questions, here we go:
Well, not yet... ;) > I've narrowed my problem to dump. I tried running dump manually on the Dump on Linux has always been touch-and-go. > On a suggestion from another sysadmin, I specified the tape density and > size. Upon doing that (specified each at 65534), I got it to run all the way What type of tape drive? What parameters exactly are you giving dump? what does 'mt status' say about the tape drive? Are there any messages in /var/log/messages? > So, do you guys have any idea what might be causing dump to behave in this > manner? Oh, as a side note, I was originally using dump version 0.4b21-3 and > have upgraded to dump version 0.4b24-1, with the same results on Redhat 7.1. > Oh, the filesystems that I'm trying to backup are coming off of a RAID array. > I don't know that that will make any difference, but perhaps it will. Hardware or software RAID? You may consider switching to tar for your backups. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
