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Ron Irving
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ignite

Hello again ladies and gents!!

I inherited a K570 with issues...(go figure)

First of all, there's been a host of single bit errors, so much so that the PDT has used up all 50 entries!! Scary!! I have scheduled a reboot for Jan 14, (our maintenance window,) and decided to attempt to run an iginte tape today, just to cover my bases.

I ran the make_tape_recovery command, and away it went. It finished with the error:

1761+0 records in
1760+1 records out
I/O error
ERROR: /usr/bin/dd if=/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k failed
to write LIF onto tape.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape

Should I assume a bad dds drive? (c1537a.)

Thanks in advance!!

Ron
Should have been an astronaut.
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Pete Randall
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Re: ignite

Before blaming the tape drive, you might want to try doing the same dd command to a disk file:

/usr/bin/dd if=/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery of=/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery bs=2k

If that works, try a new tape.


Pete

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Ron Irving
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Re: ignite

Hey Pete!! Thanks for your quick response!!

On a whim, I ran a cleaning tape through it 5 times, (I heard that has magical properties.) Re-ran the ignite command, and it's running as it should...so far, at least.

I'll wait for the process to finish, and let y'all know.

Thanks again!!
Should have been an astronaut.
Ron Irving
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Re: ignite

I knew that was going to be too easy.

make_tape_recovery unsuccessful. The error follows:

* Preparing to create a system archive

* Archiving contents of lims via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/0mn.
pax: home/jhegidus/d: emp\ditrans\TE1.DAT : No such file or directory
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
* Creation of system archive complete
NOTE: The following files are in the list of files that were on the
system, but they are no longer present. These files are not
included in the back-up:
/var/tmp/ign_configure/make_sys_image.log

ERROR: The make_sys_image command failed. The system recovery archive will
not be created.


======= 01/05/10 09:58:28 EST make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully


Any ideas, oh great gurus??

Should have been an astronaut.
Pete Randall
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Re: ignite

It seems to be complaining about a file that is no longer there - it was present when Ignite started but had vanished when Ignite actually tried to back it up. You could try again when there is less activity.


Pete

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Ron Irving
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Re: ignite

Again with the quick reply!! You're awesome!! (Try not to let that go to your head!)

I'll run it again tonight from home. Yay. Work from home!! My favorite!!

Regards,

ron
Should have been an astronaut.
Pete Randall
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Re: ignite

No, I won't let it go to my head - it's more boredom than anything else - one of those slow days where I almost want to go out and break something myself.

Anyway - you could also set up an "at" job so you wouldn't have to work from home - just check the results in the morning.


Pete

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Pete Randall
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Re: ignite

I just noticed the name of the file that went missing:

home/jhegidus/d: emp\ditrans\TE1.DAT

The "d:" doesn't look very unix like. What all are you backing up? What does your make_tape_recovery (or make_recovery?) command look like?


Pete

Pete
Ron Irving
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Re: ignite

Thanks again Pete!!

I ran:

make_tape_recovery -v -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn

cheers!!
Should have been an astronaut.
Ron Irving
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Re: ignite

But wait!!

I ran a listing of that /home directory. The actual name is d:\temp\ditrans\TE1.DAT

the log is looking for:

home/jhegidus/d: emp\ditrans\TE1.DAT

Missing the \t

Is there a way to resolve this?
Should have been an astronaut.