remote xfsdump problems....

["Drew Kirkpatrick" <drew_kirkpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having significant difficulties using xfsdump on my linux box. xfsdump 
goes out to lunch, and never comes back. I can't kill the process either, ps 
aux shows it in an eternal 'D' state, and I have to reboot it to kill it.

From ps aux:
root      6238  0.0  0.0  2004  932 pts/3    S    10:05   0:00 /bin/bash 
./backupRaid
root      6247  0.5  0.0  5096 2148 pts/3    D    10:05   0:05 xfsdump -f 
gaby:/dev/nst0 -l 0 -E -p 30 -M 2004-02-24 -L 2004-02-24 -c 
/root/backups/dumps/changeTape /raid
root      6251  0.0  0.0     0    0 pts/3    Z    10:05   0:00 [rsh 
<defunct>]




Here's the info on my xfs filesystem:
(from mount)
/dev/md0 on /raid type xfs (rw)
(from df -lh)
/dev/md0              2.6T  1.6T  1.1T  58% /raid




Both computers are linux boxes, one (xena) with a 2.6 TB xfs filesystem. The 
other computer (gabby) doesn't have a xfs filesystem, but does have the tape 
library. Both rsh and ssh work without passwords. Here's what I'm running on 
xena:

xfsdump -f gaby:/dev/nst0 -l 0 -E -p 30 -M `date -I` -L `date -I` -c 
/root/backups/dumps/changeTape /raid




not that it ever get's here, but this is the contents of the changeTape 
command (which does work):

rsh -l root gaby '/usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg3 next 0'



I've preloaded a tape myself into the drive 0, since I'm only testing so 
far. Here's the output I get from xfsdump:

[root@xena dumps]# xfsdump -f gaby:/dev/nst0 -l 0 -E -p 30 -M `date -I` -L 
`date -I` -c /root/backups/dumps/changeTape /raid

xfsdump: using scsi tape (drive_scsitape) strategy
xfsdump: version 2.2.13 (dump format 3.0) - Running single-threaded
xfsdump: level 0 dump of xena.someplace.com:/raid
xfsdump: dump date: Tue Feb 24 10:05:47 2004
xfsdump: session id: 9e4cc962-351a-4197-afc5-cae209980173
xfsdump: session label: "2004-02-24"
xfsdump: ino map phase 1: skipping (no subtrees specified)
xfsdump: ino map phase 2: constructing initial dump list
xfsdump: status at 10:05:57: inomap phase 2 970753/15358367 inos scanned, 10 
seconds elapsed




And here's where it sits forever. I'm desperate here folks! HELP!!! lol

Much thanks in advance...


-Drew

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