On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 at 10:57am, tammy wrote > exit? What causes them to hang like this? I have larger drives that dump > level 0's fine. The processes hang on my amanda server running RedHat > 7.1. > > For instance... > > Processes: > > amanda 20216 0.0 0.0 1864 0 ? SW Jun05 0:00 dump 0usf > 1048576 - /dev/sda6 > amanda 20219 0.0 3346.6 1880 4294967292 ? S Jun05 0:05 dump 0usf > 1048576 - /dev/sda6 > amanda 20220 0.0 0.0 1864 0 ? SW Jun05 0:09 dump 0usf > 1048576 - /dev/sda6 > amanda 20221 0.0 0.0 1864 0 ? SW Jun05 0:08 dump 0usf > 1048576 - /dev/sda6 > amanda 20222 0.0 0.0 1864 0 ? SW Jun05 0:09 dump 0usf > 1048576 - /dev/sda6
This is a known issue with ext2 dump and certain 2.4 series kernels. I've heard rumors that the issues are somewhat resolved with recent kernels *and* (not or) recent versions of dump, but I've not tested this. Your other option is to switch to tar for Linux backups. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
