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Re: lockups during backups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Sat Nov 28 00:48:57 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:45:18 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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"David E. Fox" wrote:
>
> After doing some more backups and experimentation with the
> tape drive I have (HP Surestore DAT) and a SCSI (Adaptec 2920C)
> card, I've noticed that frequently (but not always) the system
> will lock up solid (i.e., have to turn the system off) after the
> backup has been going on for a while.
>
> For instance, I was just backing up the system earlier today, trying
> out KDAT (a tar wrapper), part of the snapshots for KDE (possibly
> will be in KDE-1.1) and about two hours or so into the backup the
> system stopped cold. I couldn't do anything with the keyboard or
> the mouse.
Did you try telnet into the machine from another one? That
very seldom locks up. ONce in you can kill the process, and
if not kill it, at least shutdown gracefully.
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