Re: HP-UX 11.0 PA-RISC: full_backup seems to sleep forever - resolved !

Hello !

I have changed configuration of pipe to STREAMS-based on HP-UX (see
man pipe), and full_backup started to work. I have found solution on
afbackup forum.

Regards.


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Data: Fri,  5 Mar 2004 21:57:18 +0100
Temat: HP-UX 11.0 PA-RISC: full_backup seems to sleep forever

>Hello !
>
>I have compiled and installed afbackup-3.3.7pl6 on HP-UX 11.0
>PA-RISC. I configured it to be a client and server for itself. When
>I run full_backup it goes to the sleep state shortly and nothing
>happens (no activity on streamer). When Ctrl-C is pressed there is
>some activity on the streamer and some data is written to tape (but
>only small part of the backup is saved).
>I have tried to backup some files directly with "afclient -c" and it
>works fine.
>I have tryed to run tusc program to diagnose the problem, but it's
>output doesn't say much for me.
>The output of tusc invoked with servers PID as parameter shows:
>
>tusc 11835
>read(3, 0x7f7f0138, 1) ................................... [sleeping]
>ksleep(PTH_CONDVAR_OBJECT, 0x40002528, 0x40002530, NULL) . [sleeping]
>
>The output of tusc invoked with full_backup PID as parameter shows:
>
>tusc 11824
>( Attached to process 11824 ("full_backup") [32-bit] )
>write(6, "h o m e / w a r o w n y r / . d ".., 43) ....... [sleeping]
>
>I have checked configuration of afbackup (see below) several times,
>and I can't find what is wrong with my installation.
>There are no error messages in client log file and there is no
>server log file.
>Have I missed something ? Any suggestions welcome.
>
>Ragards
>Radek
>
>Client configuration:
>
>BackupHosts:		backuphost
>CartridgeSets:		1
>RootDirectory:		/
>DirsToBackup:		*
>FilesToSkip:		*.obj core
>DirsToSkip:		lost+found d01 d02 d03
>ExcludeListFile:	.buexcl
>FilesystemTypes:	/nfs /smb
>WriteChecksums:		no
>UseCTime:		no
>NumBackupParts:		1
>ProcessCmd:		gzip -1
>UnprocessCmd:		gunzip
>DoNotProcess:		*.gz *.bz2 *.[Zz] *.[Zz][Ii][Pp] *.jpg *.jpeg *.mpg
>*.mpeg *.rpm *.deb
>ProcessBackupedFiles:	1
>IndexFilePart:		%V/backup_log.
>IndexProcessCmd:	gzip -9
>IndexUnprocessCmd:	gunzip
>NumIndexesToStore:	5
>LoggingFile:		%I/client.backup.log
>ProcessLogfiles:	1
>CheckRestoreAccessPerms:	0
>VarDirectory:		/usr/local/afbackup/client/var
>StartupInfoProgram:	tee -a %V/bumsgs
>ExitProgram:		(echo '[Afbackup]: Overall exit status: %e';echo "
>";echo Minimum restore information:; echo "%i";echo " "; cat %r;
>uuencode %l `basename %l`)|mail backupadmin
>
>Server configuration:
>
>Backup-Device:		/dev/rmt/0mn
>Tape-Blocksize:		10240
>Full-Append: Yes
>Variable-Append Mode: Yes
>Reject Unlabeled Tapes:	0
>PreferCartInChanger:	Yes
>Cartridge-Handler:	0
>Number Of Cartridges:	2
>Max Bytes Per File:	50000000
>Cart-Insert-Gracetime:	70
>Dev Unavail Send mail after min:	6
>Device Unavail give up after min:	45
>Device-Probe Interval:			5
>Changer-Configuration-File:	%C/changer.conf
>SetFile-Command:	sh -c "mt -f %d rew && %B/__mt -f %d fsf %m"
>SkipFiles-Command:	%B/__mt -f %d fsf %n
>Changecart-Command:	mt -f %d offl
>User To Inform:         backupadmin
>Mail-Program:		mail -s "[Afbackup]: Backup Service Information" %u
>Var-Directory:		/usr/local/afbackup/server/var
>Tape-Pos-File:          %V/tapepos
>Logging-file:		@ /usr/local/afbackup/server/var/server.backup.log
>Status-file:		%V/status
>Program-Directory:	/usr/local/afbackup/server/rexec
>
>



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