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Subject:    [Sidewinder] Re:Hung Restore
From:       Alasdair Mor <alasdair () techemail ! com>
Date:       2001-11-15 18:11:33
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Yes. I had the same thing happen on similar hardware. I was trying to run the restore from my 5.0 CD after a botched 5.1 upgrade and it was hanging on /var/spool. I had a burst of inspiration and tried the restore using a borrowed 5.1 CD (I had just downloaded the upgrade so didn't have one of my own) and the restore went without a hitch. I, too, had suspected a tape problem, but I tried several other tapes with the same initial results.

I now request the upgraded media and docs from Secure Computing before upgrading... once bitten...

Alasdair

>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:00:02 -0500
>To: sidewinder@adeptech.com
>From: Don Kendrick <don@netspys.com>
>Subject: [Sidewinder] Hung restore
>
>Not sure if this is an hardware issue of not so I thought I'd check and see 
>if anyone else has this problem.
>
>Did a level0.backup before doing the upgrade to 5.2. The backup went 
>without any errors being reported. The upgrade blew up so I went to 
>restore. The restore goes fine until I get to restoring /var/spool. There 
>it hangs.
>
>The tape activity light goes out and the hard drive (Compaq drives doing 
>hardware RAID 1) lights stay solid. Rebooting shows all sorts of disk 
>errors in /usr, /var/spool and one other I can't remember.
>
>Tried again, same thing. Get new drives, same thing. Take tapes from two 
>other machines' backups, same thing. Even tapes from other machines stop at 
>the same point in the restore???
>
>I would normally try the tape drive next but:
>
>1) Didn't have any problems writing the tapes (oh yeah, new tapes as well)
>2) You would think that it would stop in the same spot.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Don
>
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