Offline backup hangs

Hi,

I did a fresh install of DB2 8.1 with fixpack 16 on 64 Bit Linux for
Intel (DB2/LINUXX8664 8.2.9). Install completed without any errors.

Next I created the sample database to test the installation. Everything
works fine, except that I cannot perform a backup. Whenever I run
something like "db2 backup database sample to /tmp" (Also tried various
options here), the backup process hangs. That is, I can see the backup
file in /tmp is created and is 8.1 Mb in size. I left the backup running
over night and in the morning it still hadn't finished and the size of
the backup in /tmp was still 8.1 Mb.

Has anyone experienced this before? And more important, does anyone know
how to fix this?

Many thanks in advance,
Louis

Hi ,

I suspect 2 things.

1)check whether involved filesystems are not full(100%).
2)Ensure no other backup process currently running , if any hanged bacukup process you can kill it(but ensure is it safe to kill or not).

Thanks
Bhaskar

Originally Posted by Louis Wevers

Hi,

I did a fresh install of DB2 8.1 with fixpack 16 on 64 Bit Linux for
Intel (DB2/LINUXX8664 8.2.9). Install completed without any errors.

Next I created the sample database to test the installation. Everything
works fine, except that I cannot perform a backup. Whenever I run
something like "db2 backup database sample to /tmp" (Also tried various
options here), the backup process hangs. That is, I can see the backup
file in /tmp is created and is 8.1 Mb in size. I left the backup running
over night and in the morning it still hadn't finished and the size of
the backup in /tmp was still 8.1 Mb.

Has anyone experienced this before? And more important, does anyone know
how to fix this?

Many thanks in advance,
Louis