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Question #116342 on NSsbackup changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/116342

    Status: Open => Answered

Anton proposed the following answer:
On 01/07/10 12:49, B.J. Herbison wrote:
> Question #116342 on NSsbackup changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/116342
>
> B.J. Herbison gave more information on the question:
> Additional information: The target device is a mounted network drive,
> but it is available with over 1TB free. The backup created nine files in
> the target directory so it is writable.  Nothing looks unusual in the
> log file, the last line talks about invoking tar.

To answer your previous questions, yes in most systems you should expect 
the filesize to grow as tar produces its output. In some cases, however 
the filesize may not be updated, e.g. over nfs on some systems. Do you 
have direct access to the server on which your network drive resides? 
There, certainly, filesize must be up to date and thus should be growing.

Other ways to monitor tar is by 'top'; you should normally see 
alternating activity of tar (collecting and reading files) and gzip 
(compressing tar's output on the fly). In addition, your network monitor 
should register outgoing data. Finally, using 'iotop', you should be 
able to monitor disk io of the tar process reading files.

Collecting this information should give more clues about where the error 
originates. Could you report back to us with that?


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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