Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:03:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jay Richmond <jayrich@room101.sysc.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unusual dump problem (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402110245.7771B-100000@room101.sysc.com>
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Hello, Since upgrading from a 2.2-stable system (built around Sep 1997) to 2.2.6-release, I started to experience a strange dump problem. I run dumps every night to a separate hard disk in the system every night through cron. It really doesn't need the user attention to change tapes and so forth, and for months it worked fine. Now the strange part is: when running dump through cron (as root in /etc/crontab) it ALWAYS hangs midway through dumping the large /usr file system (there is plenty of space on the backup disk by the way) every time. However, when I run it as root normally, it completes EVERY time without a hitch. There are no errors associated with the hang, just a look at top reveals that all the dump processes have gone to "pause" mode. At first I thought it might be waiting for some kindof user input or something, but then why would I need user input when running through cron always on a certain file system, while when running it normally as root it completes the entire backup fine every time (to give you an idea I've done each about 20 times, just to make sure that I wasn't playing the odds.) Anyone know what could be causing this? Please cc any reply via e-mail. Thanks for your time, Jay Richmond jayrich@sysc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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