Funny enough, I have closed a similar pmr 4 weeks ago because buta decided after
several months with frequnet crashes to discontinue this beloved habit. During 
the
monthly full backup some days ago the crashes started again. I have re-opened 
the
pmr 51149.
Recognizing that I am not the only one having this very problem, I have some 
hope
to see a solution before we enter the next millennium.

Werner


> Hello,
>
> >
> > I'm backing up our AFS installation via ADSM and buta (the
> > butc replacement).  During our normal monthly full today,
> > buta has coredumped.  The platform is AIX 4.2.1, ADSM server
> > v3.1.1.5, AFS 3.4a.  The January full ran fine.
> >
>
> I also encounter serious problems with buta. We run AFS 3.4a, AIX 4.3.1,
> buta 3.1.20.6 and the server level is 3.1.2.1. Buta is very instable and
> core dumps once a week. I had times when buta stopped several times a day.
> This happend when one of our tape robots had errors. Migration from the disk
> storage pools did not run properly. The storage pools filled up and many 
> client
> sessions hang around waiting for mount of offline media. I reported the
> problem with buta to IBM 3 weeks ago but did not get a response up today.
>
> H.G.Borrmann
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