Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Tape hangs | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:53:03 -0700 (MST) | From | "Paolo Galtieri" <> |
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Folks, I've been having a problem doing backups to an ATAPI tape drive. I run the following command:
find . | cpio -ocvB > /dev/ht0
It happily chugs along for a while and then hangs. Neither the find nor the cpio processes are killable. According to the ps listing find is in pipe_write and cpio is in down_failed. If I try to run strace on the cpio it shows nothing and it also becomes unkillable. Pulling the tape out of the drive and putting it back in makes no difference. The typically occurs when I try to backup 1Gb of data or more. I'm running 2.2.5 with Alan's ac6 patch, but the same problem has occured on prior releases. I'll try it again using tar and no pipe, but I thought I would get this question out in case anyone has a fix.
Thanks Paolo
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