Re: unable to complete huge backup

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:22 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Udo Rader <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am quite lost with a somewhat huge backup (approx 120GB) that
> > completes "sometimes" but hangs most of the time at some unpredictable
> > point. 
> >
> > The backup is done this way:
> >
> > % star b=4096 errctl="WARN|GROW|SHRINK|OPEN|READ|READLINK|MISSLINK *" -c
> > -acl artype=exustar -f /dev/st0 ${BACKUPDIR} >>${LOGFILE} 2>&1
> >
> > When I say "hang" it means that nothing is written to the tape any more
> > but instead I see two star processes "hanging" around doing virtually
> > nothing, both are in S state (=sleep) and stracing them does not show
> > any activity.
> >
> > Adding -vv to the star command above I saw that it hung on one arbitrary
> > file.
> >
> > Some stats:
> > ???star 1.5a67
> > debian etch, running on a 2.4.27-3-686-smp kernel
> > Quantum DLT-V4 on a Adaptec AIC7892 Ultra160 SCSI Controller
> 
> This is an extremely old version (> 2 years). Please upgrade to the
> recent 1.5a87 it contains a bug fix for a mutex problem with multi core systems.

Thanks for your response,

Yes, I saw it when browsing the ftp server on berlios & I am already
trying to compile 1.5a87, what a shame that even debian unstable
contains the same outdated version ...

However, I am not 100% sure that compilation was successful because
during compilation I saw lines like these:

---------CUT---------
% smake
[...]
smake: Couldn't make 'all'.
	==> MAKING "all" ON SUBCOMPONENT "SRCROOT/inc/avoffset.mk"
	==> MAKING DEPENDENCIES "avoffset.d"
smake: '.y' does not exist.

[...]

	==> MAKING DEPENDENCIES "cmpbytes.d"
In file included from cmpbytes.c:25:
../include/schily/align.h:57:20: error: align.h: No such file or
directory
---------CUT---------

can those be ignored?

Thanks!

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