From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) Description of problem: On very large filesystems, /sbin/dump sometimes hangs forever. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to run dump using multi-volume mode (-M) and save a very large filesystem on the order of 11GB with many files. Actual Results: /sbin/dump goes idle and does nothing. Expected Results: /sbin/dump should have completed the dump of the entire filesystem. Additional info: This bug is trivial to fix. When I recompiled dump using version 0.4b22, dump completes normally. I don't really know what the difference is between the RedHat version and my own compiled version, but something made a difference. My compiled dump is dynamically linked and the one in RedHat 7.2 at /sbin/dump is statically linked. It's possible that there is some statically linked library code that's out of date. I recommend recompiling dump and restore and just put a new RPM out there. It can only help. I've also had this problem with RedHat 7.1 by the way and solved it in a similar way.
This is fixed in dump 0.4b25 which I have just built internally. It should be available in rawhide shortly. Can you confirm the fixed version works for you?
Yes, I can rerun my entire backup job using the newly compiled version.
Great, thanks
I reran my network backup. The entire job ran without any problems including the 11GB dump. + sh -c '/auto/sw/dump/0.4b25-1/sbin/dump -T "Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969" -B 1500\000 -M -f /auto/backup-c700-0/dump/time-range/from-1969-12-31/19-00-00--0500/to-2001-11-23/09-36-15--0500/celeron600-0.xxxxxxxxx-pn.com/auto-local.dump /auto-\local' DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Nov 23 09:38:24 2001 DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdd3 (/auto-local) to /auto/backup-c700-0/dump/time-range/from-1969-12-31/19-00-00--0500/to-2001-11-23/09-36-15--0500/celeron600-0.xxxxxxxx\x-pn.com/auto-local.dump001 DUMP: Added inode 8 to exclude list (journal inode) DUMP: Added inode 7 to exclude list (resize inode) DUMP: Label: /auto-local DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 11384281 tape blocks on 7.59 tape(s). DUMP: Dumping volume 1 on /auto/backup-c700-0/dump/time-range/from-1969-12-31/19-00-00--0500/to-2001-11-23/09-36-15--0500/celeron600-0.xxxxxxxxx-pn.com/auto-local.dump001 . . . DUMP: 11505810 tape blocks (11236.14MB) on 8 volume(s) DUMP: finished in 1792 seconds, throughput 6420 kBytes/sec DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Nov 23 09:38:24 2001 DUMP: Date this dump completed: Fri Nov 23 10:08:53 2001 DUMP: Average transfer rate: 6451 kB/s DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
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