Hi Dima,
The solution is to either get a faster computer or don't use X.
X takes a lot of CPU cycles away from afio and ftape so your errors
will increase.
Carl
On 24-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the last little while I noticed some oddoties while doing backups
> on my
> system with afio and ftape.
>
> I have a P133 with 64MB, and a Colorado T3000 drive attached to the
> regular
> floppy controller.
>
> I am using ftape-4.03-pre-2 and ftape-tools-1.07. Now if the system
> is
> completely unloaded the backups proceed without problems but as soon
> as
> I start X up the backup starts dying with timeout errors I believe.
> I
> don't have the logs where this problem occurred but if you would like
> me
> to reproduce it just let me know and I will send you the output.
>
> Now is this normal? This was noticed on the late development
> kernels,
> 2.1.115 and beyond, I don't know if this problem existed before since
> 99% of my backups are done overnight.
>
> Thanks
> Dima
>
> --
> Dima Brodsky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Department of Computing Science (403)
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>
> Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
> (Joseph Campbe
ll)
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25-Jan-99
Time: 17:56:20
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