Solaris

Hi,

We've gotta bit of a problem regarding backups. Sometimes when we run a backup from a script :

find . -print |grep -v "^\.\/newicc" | grep -v "^\.\/proc" >$LST
cat $LST | cpio -oBcav > /dev/rmt/1cb

It quite often it seems to hang when it reaches the /etc/magic file. This happens frequently on all 3 of our Sun Enterprise 3500's backing up onto DLT IV.

The odd part is I grep'd out the "/etc/magic" file and it hung on "/etc/format.."

It's getting rather confusing as it's happening on multiple machines, any help would be more than welcome..

Cheers in advance.

/etc/magic is the last file to work. You want to examine the file that follows it. That will probably be /etc/mnttab. Do a "df -k" and notice that /etc/mnttab is a psuedo filesystem much like /proc. You will need to exclude /etc/mnttab.

The great, cheers. I'll take it out of the scripts and it'll be run over the weekend.

Thanks loads...