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I recently had to switch where one of my server's does an rdump too. It goes through the first few partitions fine but once it gets to the two larger ones (6-8 gig) it takes forever. I let it run from Friday day until Sunday Morning and it still was not completed. I am using the same tapes that I used on the old server, and it worked fine on the server that it used to do the rdump too. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

What is the largest file size supported by both servers? 32 bit integers can't handle 6 or 8 GB.

I guess I am not sure how to check that, but the partitions themselves are 6-8 gig not the files... Here is a df on the machine..

# df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk/dsk6a 128847 98336 17626 85% /
/proc 0 0 0 100% /proc
/dev/disk/dsk6g 704638 449880 184294 71% /usr
/dev/disk/dsk6h 974998 498744 378754 57% /data1
/dev/disk/dsk1g 666765 303819 296269 51% /data2
/dev/disk/dsk4c 17253413 6371984 9156087 42% /data3
/dev/disk/dsk5c 17253164 8657932 6869915 56% /data4

Sometimes it gets through all of /data3 with out slowing down others it doesn't here is also a little bit from the log..


rdump: Dumping /dev/rdisk/dsk4c (/data3) to /dev/ntape/tape0c on host pellns
rdump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
rdump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
rdump: Estimate: 6442921 tape blocks on 158 volume(s)
rdump: 0.01% done -- finished in 32:12
rdump: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
rdump: Volume 1, tape # 0001, begins with blocks from i-node 2
rdump: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
rdump: 0.26% done -- finished in 33:30
rdump: 0.50% done -- finished in 33:20
rdump: 0.76% done -- finished in 33:09
rdump: 1.00% done -- finished in 33:07
rdump: 1.25% done -- finished in 33:08
rdump: 1.50% done -- finished in 33:06
rdump: 1.74% done -- finished in 33:03
rdump: 1.99% done -- finished in 33:00
rdump: 2.23% done -- finished in 32:55
rdump: 2.48% done -- finished in 32:51
rdump: 2.73% done -- finished in 32:45
rdump: 2.97% done -- finished in 32:42
rdump: 3.22% done -- finished in 32:36
rdump: 3.47% done -- finished in 32:33
rdump: 3.71% done -- finished in 32:30
rdump: 3.96% done -- finished in 32:25
rdump: 4.20% done -- finished in 32:21
rdump: 4.45% done -- finished in 32:15
rdump: 4.70% done -- finished in 32:11
rdump: 4.94% done -- finished in 32:05
rdump: 5.19% done -- finished in 32:00
rdump: 5.44% done -- finished in 31:54
rdump: 5.69% done -- finished in 31:49
rdump: 5.94% done -- finished in 31:43
rdump: 6.18% done -- finished in 31:39
rdump: 6.43% done -- finished in 31:34
rdump: 6.67% done -- finished in 31:29
rdump: 6.92% done -- finished in 31:24
rdump: 7.17% done -- finished in 31:19
rdump: 7.41% done -- finished in 31:14
rdump: 7.66% done -- finished in 31:09
rdump: 7.91% done -- finished in 31:04
rdump: 8.16% done -- finished in 30:58
rdump: 8.41% done -- finished in 30:54


Thanks again

Just in case this helps anyone else out, the problem is that I forgot to include the block size in the script. I changed to script to include the block size of 64 and it is zipping through it again.