bug on backups?!

[Lem0nHead]

hello

I think there's a bug on backups
that's the second time I see a process like this:

user 61789 79.9 0.0 508 316 ?? R 8:37AM 55:15.16 /usr/bin/tar czfp /home/user/backups/backup-Sep-6-2005-1.tar.gz -C
user 61788 0.0 0.0 632 244 ?? I 8:37AM 0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/tar czfp /home/user/backups/backup-Sep-6-2005-1.tar

it keeps running for HOURS... and consuming CPU...
I checked it and it should have ended in a few minutes... the site is not so big (the whole /home/user/ dir has 250 MBs, including the backup file)

I belive there's some failure to kill this process, or it's being put wrong on background

what already happened to me once was to change "cat" to "pico" when doing "cat filename | more"
if you do "pico filename | more", the session will crash and this process will consume a lot of CPU
maybe it's something similar, don't know...

 

[websmith]

I have the same problem. If I kill sh process backup will continue.
Does anybody know how to solve the problem?

 

[winger]

I am not able to restore some backups too, take a long time and give me a error like this:

The file /home/tmp/admin/xxx.tar.gz doesn't exists or is an invalid path

 

[websmith]

The problem is not in restore but in the sh processes that running for hours without any success