RE: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 9:53am, wab wrote > It's obviously this I/O error that's causing the problem... the > filesystem is 67 gig (df -k says 67108864 1048-K blocks). The other > filesystems being backed up to the tape only are using 3-4% of tape > capacity... and it's a DLT 40/80. The compression

Re: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
wab wrote: It's obviously this I/O error that's causing the problem... the filesystem is 67 gig (df -k says 67108864 1048-K blocks). The other filesystems being backed up to the tape only are using 3-4% of tape capacity... and it's a DLT 40/80. The compression ratio seems like all this should fit o

RE: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 9:47am, wab wrote > It's AIX. > > So is this I/O error referring to writing to tape, or reading the file > from disk? I'd much rather use tar than dump... Reading from disk -- check the client's system logs. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Du

Re: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
wab wrote: One filesystem I'm trying to back up with AMANDA is really huge and I'm encountering errors: This filesystem is so huge, a level 0 is taking longer than 24 hours. Any ideas on what could be going wrong? My best guesses: 1. The filesystem is just too big for TAR. No, at the end of the tar

Re: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 at 3:54pm, wab wrote > One filesystem I'm trying to back up with AMANDA is really huge and I'm > encountering errors: > > This filesystem is so huge, a level 0 is taking longer than 24 hours. > Any ideas on what could be going wrong? My best guesses: > > 1. The filesystem is