Sceduled backups with vdump have been delayed as a mounted system had crashed while I was away for 2 weeks. Now there are 5 simultaneous vdumps running very slowly. The full system backup usually takes a whole weekend.

Can I safely kill these? (I will have to live without a backup untill next weekend).

We are in a clinical environment running Digital UNIX.

Thanks, Nickt.

vdump just does full/incremental backups. Stopping it will not hurt anything - except:
files that remain unchanged after today will not be picked up on any subsequebnt incremental backup. A full backup will get them.

Thanks Jim. My main concern was if it would corrupt the filing system killing a task that is writing data.

If you were vdump-ing to files on a disk, then yes, those backup saveset files are now not usable.
The source files are fine.

Yes, the target is an external USB disk drive (on a networked Windows 2000 system actually). Would I need to check the disk file structure (chkdsk or scandisk)?