Jetson Orin NX Backup hangs issue

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin NX
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hi.
I’m trying to create a backup of my Jetson Orin NX 16gb using Jetpack 6.2.1, the process seems to be stuck at the first partition.

Running sudo ./l4t_backup_restore.sh -e nvme0n1 -b jetson-orin-nano-devkit
yields

nvbackup_partitions.sh: The detected partitions in nvme0n1 are:
/dev/nvme0n1p1
/dev/nvme0n1p2
/dev/nvme0n1p3
/dev/nvme0n1p4
/dev/nvme0n1p5
/dev/nvme0n1p6
/dev/nvme0n1p7
/dev/nvme0n1p8
/dev/nvme0n1p9
/dev/nvme0n1p10
/dev/nvme0n1p11
/dev/nvme0n1p12
/dev/nvme0n1p13
/dev/nvme0n1p14
/dev/nvme0n1p15

nvbackup_partitions.sh: Backing up GPT…
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
20480 bytes (20 kB, 20 KiB) copied, 0.00191018 s, 10.7 MB/s
nvbackup_partitions.sh: Success backing up GPT to nvme0n1_gptmbr.img

nvbackup_partitions.sh: Backing up backup GPT…
33+0 records in
33+0 records out
16896 bytes (17 kB, 16 KiB) copied, 0.00137021 s, 12.3 MB/s
nvbackup_partitions.sh: Success backing up backup GPT to nvme0n1_gptbackup.img

nvbackup_partitions.sh: Start backing up nvme0n1p1…
tar: Write checkpoint 10000..

Where after tar: Write checkpoint 4040000 the communication just stops.

Attaching full log:

log.txt (121.0 KB)

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Hi @sergey.molchanov,

I hope you are doing well.

Are you using a custom carrier board or the official NVIDIA Devkit?
When the process appears to hang, does it stay there indefinitely until you cancel it, or does it eventually continue or report any errors?

For reference, I tested running this script with my Orin NX + CTI Boson carrier board. I used:

sudo ./tools/backup_restore/l4t_backup_restore.sh -e nvme0n1 -b cti/orin-nx/boson/fsm-imx464-2cam

The process seemed to hang for partition nvme0n1p1, but after a little while it completed and continued with the rest of the partitions.

Best regards,
Nico
Embedded Software Engineer at ProventusNova

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thanks a lot for the reply:) The issue turned out to be rather dull, the temp space on the host needed for the script ran out on a partition different from the one I was putting the backup to. It came through once I added more

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Hi!
I have the same(similar) issue, Jetson orin nx 16gb with jetson 6.2 stuck at tar: Write checkpoint 4600000. However I fail to understand what partition/location the temp files are stored that are other than the backup directory. I’m trying to look into the nvbackup_partition.sh to see but fail to understand.

My /tmp got 700GB avail and I’ve managed to make backups just hours before.

If you got any more information it would be appreciated :)