Re: [Dump-users] trobles with dump

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Le mardi 03 octobre 2006 =E0 11:01 +0200, Vincenzo Versi a =E9crit :
> Ok Stelian thanks, here is the message:
> I can't send messages to the dump-user mailing list and I do not know
> why, anyway I hope you'll receive this message with all the
> information you asked me. Here they are:

You need to be subscribed to the list to post (we were getting too much
spam when this was not in place).
> =20
> my kernel version is :linux-2.4.7-10 redhat and the dump version is
> 0.4b22 (using libext2fs 1.23)

Ok. Your version of dump is prehistoric, this version was released more
than 5 years ago.

Your linux kernel and probably your entire distribution is very old too,
but you probably have your reasons to keep it that way.

However, the latest version of dump should hopefully build and work just
fine on your system, and before we look deeper into your problem you
should just check if this bug was not fixed in more recent versions of
dump.

Stelian.

[I'm leaving the rest of the mail quoted below for reference on the
mailing list...]

> the output of the of the command:
> =20
> > dump -0Mu -f <filename> -z2 /dev/hdb1=20
> =20
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Sep 26 09:20:06 2006
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb1 (/mnt/Zeta)
> to /mnt/Zeta.bak/backups/zeta_bk/L0/dump0.20060925.001
>   DUMP: Label: none
>   DUMP: Compressing output at compression level 2=20
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 35933398 tape blocks.
>   DUMP: Dumping volume 1
> on /mnt/Zeta.bak/backups/zeta_bk/L0/dump0.20060925.001
>   DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Sep 26 09:22:31 2006=20
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
>   DUMP: 1.56% done at 1873 kB/s, finished in 5:14
>   DUMP: 3.08% done at 1841 kB/s, finished in 5:15
>   DUMP: 4.58% done at 1827 kB/s, finished in 5:12=20
>   DUMP: 6.08% done at 1820 kB/s, finished in 5:09
>   DUMP: 7.59% done at 1818 kB/s, finished in 5:04
>   DUMP: 9.15% done at 1826 kB/s, finished in 4:57
>   DUMP: 10.77% done at 1842 kB/s, finished in 4:50
>   DUMP: 12.28% done at 1838 kB/s, finished in 4:45
>   DUMP: 13.85% done at 1843 kB/s, finished in 4:39
>   DUMP: 15.37% done at 1841 kB/s, finished in 4:35
>   DUMP: 16.88% done at 1838 kB/s, finished in 4:30
>   DUMP: 18.40% done at 1836 kB/s, finished in 4:26
>   DUMP: 20.00% done at 1842 kB/s, finished in 4:20
>   DUMP: 21.56% done at 1844 kB/s, finished in 4:14
>   DUMP: 23.14% done at 1848 kB/s, finished in 4:09
>   DUMP: 24.68% done at 1847 kB/s, finished in 4:04=20
>   DUMP: 26.19% done at 1844 kB/s, finished in 3:59
>   DUMP: 27.77% done at 1847 kB/s, finished in 3:54
>   DUMP: 29.27% done at 1845 kB/s, finished in 3:49
>   DUMP: 30.80% done at 1844 kB/s, finished in 3:44=20
>   DUMP: 32.24% done at 1838 kB/s, finished in 3:40
> =20
> it gives me not any error message or anything else, it just stops and,
> after exiting with Ctrl+C, no process are viewed with >top but if I
> use somekind of >fuser it displays me some process regarding dump and
> the <filename>.=20
> The fact is that I've tried with both the devices /dev/hdb
> and /dev/hdb1 (filesystem to dump) and sometimes it arrives to 70% and
> it gives is always the same thing: it stops.
> =20
> thank you in advance
> Vincent
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> 2006/10/3, Stelian Pop <st...@po...>:=20
>         > Vincenzo Versi a =E9crit :
>         > > Hi everyone,
>         > > I'm new with linux and want to learn more about this
>         wonderful os=20
>         > > <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=20
>         > > 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.=20
>         > > 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.
>         > >
>         >
>         > What do you mean exactly when you say that dump "hangs up" ?
>         Is it=20
>         > crashing, do you get write errors or something, or the
>         process just
>         > doesn't advance anymore ? Please post the full output of the
>         dump
>         > command, it may contain useful information for debugging.
>        =20
>         Hi,
>        =20
>         Due to a bad configuration setting in my mailer (I was on
>         road/dialup
>         connection and I wasn't using my regular mailer), the
>         Reply-To: in my
>         original answer was badly positionned (and the CC: to the list
>         was also=20
>         missing).
>        =20
>         As a result, I have not received any of your answers since the
>         original
>         post (but I have seen in the mail server logs that you send a
>         few
>         replies), so please resend the messages once again.
>        =20
>         Sorry about this.
>        =20
>         Stelian.
>         --
>         Stelian Pop <st...@po...>
>        =20
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