Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!chalmers.se!imtws3!angr From: angr@imdpy1.im.se (Anders Grund IMD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: cpio -itB in 5.1 Bugg ?? Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 15:17:38 GMT Sender: news@imtws3.im.se Distribution: comp.sys.pyramid Organization: Industri-Matematik Data AB, Sweden Lines: 31 After installing OSx5.1 we have had problems with checking our backups. What we do is generating a list whith find, to a temporary file. Then we do a cpio -ovB, from that list of files, basicly what is recommended in the release bullentin for OSx5.1. (lately we have used the -P flag as well) Five times in about two and a half week, cpio -itB has been hung after reading the tape for a while (i don't now the time). It's not very neat when you are backing upp something like 3 -4 Gb every night, and have programmers working all day long. When cpio are hung it has also stopt reading the tape. The *worst* thing is that i have too take down the machine in single user. Two of the times i even had to halt it !!! The machine is Mis12/03 running OSX5.1, i find it *very* inconvenient that you can't verify your tapes. Unfourtunately the data which is written to the tape, to which cpio -itB has been hung seems to work. We had a disk crasch the other day so i had to use those tapes........... What is the problem ? Thank's Anders -- Anders Grund Email: angr@imdpy1 IMD Tel: 5109