Constance Morris wrote: > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx > Constance Morris wrote: >> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx >>> Constance Morris wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone ever received the following 2 types of backup error >>>> messages in their linux mail: >>> >>> 1.) >>> >>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Backup >>>> complete...taking CP out of hot backup mode at: Tue May 7 02:54:20 >> >>> This one reminds me of when either a) the filesystem's full, or b) >>> trying to back up something that shouldn't be backed up, like >>> /dev/<anything>... >>> or maybe the tarfile it's creating, itself. You might try running it >>> manually, and see what happens. <snip> >> >>> On #1. Could any of those things (filesystem file, etc.) cause the >>> system not to boot back up when it goes down for backups? >>> Forgive my ignorance - is there a system-wide command for running it >>> manually? >>> I did not setup the backups and am not sure how to do that. > >> I see a problem here: when we say "the system is down" it means it's >> *down*, not running. You're using to mean "some service(s) are down while >> we do backups". For example, you might say "the d/b system is down while >> we do backups"... but you can't do anything with a brick, sitting there, >> which is what a server is when it's down. > >> Please explain what you mean by "not to boot back up". > > Ah, so sorry. > Based upon your definition - then I would say I was referring to a service > normally available to clients via the web not coming back up (aka: being > available to the clients via the web) after going down for the backups. > The way our backup is setup I know it takes the services down - backs > things up - and then starts the services up. However, I did not know if > that error that seems to be happening during backups could cause the > server to get hung up and not start the services back up. > > Am I making sense? Getting there. Are you saying the website goes down while the backups are done, and that it, or some part of it, is not coming back up? mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
