[OpenAFS] Re: backup dump suddenly started failing - (failed - partially dumped, possible communication error)

[Andrew Deason]

On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:10:12 +0100
Bastian <dea1306@melvex.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Andrew Deason schreef:
> > On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:21:17 +0100
> > Bastian <dea1306@melvex.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> >> Fri Jan  8 12:05:43 2010: Task 2: End of pass 1: Volumes remaining
> >> = 1 Fri Jan  8 12:05:43 2010: Task 2: Starting pass 2
> >> Fri Jan  8 12:44:07 2010: Task 2: Volume <x> failed - partially
> >> dumped Possible communication failure
> > 
> > Anything in VolserLog on the server that volume <x> is on?
> > 
> > Try 'vos dump -verbose'ing the backup volume <x>; what does it say?
> > 
> 
> Thanks. You are right. It seems to hang. vos dump hangs after 982M of
> the volume (which is about one fourth) has been dumped.

This looks like bug 20727, which was fixed in 1.4.8. The following
patches fix it:

05369aa5551ac6913a4079be7d85ef04c2b76f52
41122a94a24e2e5b9389f89badc8f67b37a5312f

I don't know if 1.4.7.dfsg1-6+lenny2 contains these patches; perhaps
someone else can say if they are.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net