Re: Amrecover hangs after restore

Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Nov 25, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Am 25.11.20 um 20:57 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 14:34:17 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
>>> Also, do you see the same defunct pigz process that Jason reported in
>>> his original post?
>> 
>> Am 30.05.18 um 20:21 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III:
>>> root      2690  9.1  0.0 317692 11020 pts/0    S+   12:38   1:43  |           \_ amrecover math -s backup2 -t backup2         
>>> root      2996 32.5  0.0      0     0 pts/0    Z+   12:48   2:52  |               \_ [pigz] <defunct>                         
>>> root      2998  3.3  0.0      0     0 pts/0    Z+   12:48   0:17  |               \_ [xfsrestore] <defunct>                   
>> 
>> Assuming you are seeing this same behavior: one theory that comes to
>> mind is that pigz could be spawning subprocesses which then somehow
>> confuse amrecover such that it doesn't properly detect when pigz
>> terminates (and just keeps waiting for that to happen, even though it
>> already has happened).
>> 
>> I don't know enough about how amrecover spawn the pipes to know how
>> likely that is, but one thing you could try is to kill the amrecover
>> process with a SIGCHLD signal (once it reaches the above "everything is
>> hung" situation) and see if one or both of those defunct processes go
>> away, and if the amrecover process starts doing work again
>> afterwards....
> 
> short reply, as it is late here already:
> 
> the theory is good, sure. I will test the restore aside from amrecover
> tomorrow.


If so, remember to “throw out” the first block of the file, which will choke the zip program.
dd    -skip=1     etc

Deb Baddorf
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