From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 8:21:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.cproject.com (premium129.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.132.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C32B31563A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:21:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhanna@cproject.com) Received: (qmail 35336 invoked by uid 83); 29 Dec 1999 16:21:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dv2000.omfus.org) (10.1.1.43) by larryboy with SMTP; 29 Dec 1999 16:21:34 -0000 Message-ID: <002101bf5218$edad17e0$2b01010a@omfus.org> From: "John Hanna" To: Subject: DUMP causes system lockup? Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:22:40 -0700 Organization: Caleb Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I run dump nightly to backup my files to a second disk, something like this: dump -0 -a -f - / |gzip >/backup/larryboy/larryboy.root.dump.gz dump -0 -a -f - /usr |gzip >/backup/larryboy/larryboy.usr.dump.gz Last night in the middle of this process the system locked up. I had to push the reset key this morning to bring it back. UUCICO was also running about the same time as the backup. This has been a repeatable problem, although it doesn't crash every night Dump runs. Is fileaccess in the middle of a dump bad? I can't shut off all server functions for the duration of the dump. Is there a way I can make dump more file-sharing-friendly? TAR never did this. Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message