Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:20:24 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with dump stalling Message-ID: <20081008182024.890C54501D@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:13:32 PDT." <20081008181332.GE32260@0lsen.net>
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--==_Exmh_1223490024_62215P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:13:32 -0700 > From: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > On Oct 08, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I had a system that was showing these exact symptoms David described. It > > did this both with -L and without. I went for about 3 months without a > > successful dump. I did at least two full system re-installs to no avail. > > Then, about 3 weeks ago, when I was about to start some serious > > debugging, it started working again. Nothing was touched between the last > > failure and the first success. I'm completely baffled! > > I had a lengthy discussion with Jeremy about this where he lowered the boom > on my expectations with UFS2 and dump. I find the lack of a real > incremental backup solution with the default filesystem in FreeBSD to be an > alarming problem. But it is a fairly unusual issue. We have a LOT of systems doing nightly dumps and only this one had the problem. It lasted for just over two months and simply vanished. I just wish I had some sort of explanation, especially when snapshots (-L) are not used. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1223490024_62215P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFI7Pnokn3rs5h7N1ERAla7AJ9hiSJzf9qZ43n87PmQ+yigBnMOGwCeNQ3k M1zklHxkRS6fsGKyjObW+xI= =f7em -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1223490024_62215P--
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