I was running dump on 7.1, and had nothing but problems. I was told that Linus himself came out on the list and claimed that people should stop expecting reliable behavior from dump, as there were things being changed in the kernel that might make it unreliable. I switched to GNUtar, and have been fine ever since (when I don't hose up the SCSI chain).
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 1:45pm, Jos� Vicente N��ez Zuleta wrote > > > > Are you using dump or tar on the Linux client? What > > > version, and what > > > distribution of Linux? I've seen dump hang more > > > than once... > > > > I'm using dump, Linux Redhat 6.2. > > > > If dump hangs how can i fix it? > > > You have two options: > > 1) Upgrade to the latest version of dump/restore from > <http://dump.sourceforge.net/> and hope that fixes it. > > 2) Switch your dumptype(s) to use GNUtar instead. > > For my systems, I tried 1 for a while, but then switched to 2 and have > been much happier ever since. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > >
