ftio

[Mieke Oostveen_1]

Every night we make a systembackup of our HP-UX 11 system. We use "ftio" for this action. Sometimes the session failed. We have to kill this session. (kill -9 ...) I know that ftio used multiprocessing. If i look with
"ps -efa | grep ftio" i see two sessions. One i can kill but the other didn't respons on the kill command. After a reboot this proccess is disappeared but it's no solution. Do someone know how i can kill this second session ??

Thanks for your respons.

Kind Regards,
Mieke Oostveen

[Darren Prior]

Hi Mieke,

It sounds like the second process is hung on i/o, hence you won't be able to kill it.

ftio is an old utility which was designed a long time before today's systems, tape drives and high disk capacities. It also has file limits of 2gig. Perhaps it's time to consider a different method of backing up the system?

regards,

Darren.

[Mieke Oostveen_1]

Hi Darren,

Thanks for your reply.
I will change this action in "cpio".

Kind Regards,
Mieke Oostveen

[Frank Slootweg]

For (file-level) *system* backup you should use fbackup (either via SAM or directly) as a minimum.

ftio, cpio, tar etc. are inappropriate for system backup. They are too limited, do not have any error recovery, etc..

For crash-recovery, i.e. for example for when the system can/does not boot anymore, you can use Ignite-UX.