On 09/08/97 19:44:13 you wrote:
Hi,
When doing a `raid swap' I get this warning,
raid swap
** WARNING ** You can NOT swap a disk into or out of the system: a dump is currently running on a local tape device and you must wait until the dump is completed, or abort the dump before reissuing the "raid swap" command.
This particular limitation shouldn't happen if your tape drive isn't on the same bus as your disks, which is just about every system Netapp has shipped in recent years. However, that "bug" wasn't fixed until 4.0 or 4.1, I think.
But there is no dump running, the last dump was aborted,
DUMP: ran out of tape, and can't ask questions when run via "rsh". DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
Is there a lockfile which should be removed? How do I abort the dump I can't find?
Yes, unfortunately, there is no "dump abort" command on the filer the clear up such things. There might be a way to abort NDMP sessions, but basically the best thing for you to do is reboot. (There's no lockfile; the state is in memory.)
An easy way to reproduce this is have an rsh dump running from a remote client which then crashes.
Bruce