[rhel - user] backup error message in mail

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Constance   Morris wrote:
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Constance   Morris wrote:
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
>>> 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.
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>>
>>> 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?

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