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[Courtney Thomas]

Dow,

It's an ext2fs filesystem which I assume is no problem for dump.

Thank you.



Dow Hurst wrote:

> Unfortunately, no for local outfits that I've heard of.  I do usually 
> have to followup with them on everything.  It is part of the game at 
> this low a cost for parts and service. SGI's hardware support was much 
> better at follow up/thru for us, but costs a lot more, so with budget 
> cuts we had to drop their support.
> 
> I was thinking of the filesystem type such as ext2fs or xfs or 
> reiserfs.  I know that dump and xfsdump were specific on SGIs for efs or 
> xfs and one would not work on the other.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>> Thanks again Dow.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. It's a Maxtor HD, IEEE1394 SBP-2 rig.... 
>> split up into 5 virtual disks, i.e. /dev/sda[5-9], treated as a SCSI 
>> device.
>>
>> I don't know if dump supports it but presume so since it's installed 
>> as a SCSI device running off a AHA-2944 adapter using aic7xxx driver.
>>
>> I've been trying to back up /dev/sda[5-9] onto a Sony AIT tape drive 
>> using....
>>     dump 0af /dev/nst0 /dev/sda5
>> etc...
>>
>> I guess dump supports all SCSI drives including ieee1394 devices. It 
>> certainly functions OK as a sequence of scsi HDs.
>>
>> By the way, thanks for the suggestion of having the repair outfit here 
>> in Alpharetta look at the Sony AIT tape drive. I know you were trying 
>> to help but they never even called me back after talking to one of 
>> their repairmen. Any other ideas for trouble with the tape drive in 
>> the future ?
>>
>> Most Appreciatively,
>>
>> Courtney
>>
>> Dow Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> What is your filesystem on /dev/sda5?  I know this sounds stupid, but 
>>> does dump support your filesystem type?  Just trying to help out,
>>> Dow
>>>
>>>
>>> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just tried it again and got........      Kernel Panic
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>> Courtney
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Attempting to tape [/dev/nst0] backup a harddrive [/dev/sda5] using 
>>>>> the command.....
>>>>>
>>>>>     dump 0af /dev/nst0 /dev/sda5
>>>>>
>>>>> under Debian-2.4.17, I am getting crashes with screen errors such 
>>>>> as..........
>>>>>
>>>>>     Init ID "2" : respawning too fast, disabled for 5 min
>>>>>
>>>>>     segmentation fault
>>>>>
>>>>> as well as screens full of Code so and so, and lots of other stuff !
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the probable problem and cure ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Appreciatively,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 


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Courtney Thomas
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