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[Veritas-bu] 5.1: Backup stalls

2007-01-21 01:17:14
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1: Backup stalls
From: ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:17:14 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using NBU 5.1 to backup a few Solaris servers. Since recently,
> I'm experiencing problems with the backup. Specifically, on one
> server, the backup just stalls (at the last file?). Ie. it just
> doesn't go on.
> 
> Eg. right now, it hangs at:
> 
> askwar at winds05 ~ $ ls -lah 
> /.backup/snapshots/u01/apps/oracle/oradata/RACEREF0/archive/1_403_583919677.dbf
> -rw-r-----   1 oracle   oinstall    9.6M Mar 13  2006 
> /.backup/snapshots/u01/apps/oracle/oradata/RACEREF0/archive/1_403_583919677.dbf
> 
> So it hangs at a file which is just a tiny 9.6M in size.

I woul truss the backup process and see what the system call is.  Is it
a read?  Can you 'dd' the file?

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
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