[Dump-users] trobles with dump

[Vincenzo V. <vin...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,
I'm new with linux and want to learn more about this wonderful
os<http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#>.
I hope I will not make too many mistakes on the first time on the forum.
Trying to make a backup <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#> with dump I ran
into a serious troble that is:
I want to make a dump of a filesystem mounted on a partition of an hd lets
say the name of the device is /dev/hdb1. this is the only partition of hdb.
I tried with the command:

dump -0Mu -f <filename> -z2 /dev/hdb1

<filename> is in an ext2 filesystem, hdb1 is an ext2 filsystem.
dump begins to work and begins to write the 1st volume, it arrives at about
6% and then dump hangs up.
the filesystem hdb1 is unmounted and has 50G of
data<http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#>,
the filesystem on wich I attempt to save the file is a 90G hd.

I'd like to know what's the trouble with it. It's long time I try to make
this dump and I tried with hdb instead of hdb1 and seemed to work better, I
mean it hangs up at 30%.

Please help me I'm going crazy!
The very best to everyone.

cecio