topic fbackup problem in Operating System - HP-UX

fbackup problem

Stefano_10 — Fri, 21 May 2004 14:42:48 GMT

Dear all,
i have an fbackup that is running since more than 6 hours, and i don't understand why?.
I have these processes that are working:
174:13 53.67 53.57 fbackuprdr
172:28 47.14 47.06 fbackuprdr
1:18 0.22 0.22 fbackupwrtr
1:17 0.16 0.16 fbackup
I would know which of these are in charge to write, becouse i think that it's the third it hasn't done nothing yet and so i have a big problem.
Thank you
Stefano

Re: fbackup problem

Bharat Katkar — Fri, 21 May 2004 14:48:04 GMT

You can check what exactly is going on like which process is idle or waiting for any resorces etc by using command ps.

# ps -elf | grep fback

This may even point the cuase of the delay or why particular process is hanged out there.

Hope that helps.
Regards,

Re: fbackup problem

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 21 May 2004 14:53:02 GMT

Hi,

Looke like your fbackup job is hung. There seems to be old fbackup jobs that did not complete successfully and the processes are still holding the device where you are backing up the data unless you have multiple backup drives (DLT drives) on the system.

Killing all the fbackup processes and restarting would be a good idea. Do not depend on the backup that has been running over the last 6 hours.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: fbackup problem

Dani Seely — Fri, 21 May 2004 14:55:11 GMT

Hey Stefano,
Hopefully you have a GUI terminal rather than an ASCII terminal, in which case you can check processes, disk space, etc, otherwise, you'll have to cancel your current backup process or telnet/secure shell into your box to check these.

Can you confirm whether this is a new tape? It's possible your tape's bad, even if it's a new tape ...