From: Jane Caldwell-Myers (jane@nickel.laurentian.ca)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 09:44:04 EDT
I am on a DS20 running COMPAQTRU64 V5.1.
I am trying to backup the system to install a new raid controller. I was able to dump the / and /usr filesystems but when I attempted to dump a third filesystem I got a calloc error. I decied to use cpio to save the data but the backup is taking extremely long - over 3 hours now.
The total space taken up by the directories is 6062378 KB (displayed by a df -k command).
The command I used is
find . -print | cpio -ov -O/dev/ntape/tape1_d1
I am backing up to a Compaq 35/70 GB tape unit on to a DLT.
Is it normal for this to take this long. Any suggestion would be appreciated as I am under the gun to get this system up and running again.
Thanks
Jane Caldwell-Myers
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 Ext. 2150
jane@laurentian.ca
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