topic Re: Fbackup in Operating System - HP-UX

Fbackup

Rebecca Hounschell — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:51:03 GMT

I have found that tar has a 2 gb limit even with largefiles enabled. Therefore, I am using fbackup to store 28 gb to a dds tape. I have added a dlt tape drive to this system but fbackup will not write to this drive nor can I get it to write to a disk file that I created as /backup. The error that I get when trying to write to the dlt is:
"/dev/rmt/1m" is not a valid device file for backup, writer aborting. I have tried /dev/rmt/1mn and BEST but get the same error. When I try to write to /backup (which is a 35gb file) I get this error: "at least one output file must be specified". These are the commands I used: "/usr/sbin/fbackup -0i /u00/oradata -f /dev/rmt/1m or /backup". Can you please tell me how to get fbackup to write to the dlt drive or the disk file. Thank you.

Re: Fbackup

John Palmer — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:59:15 GMT

Hi Rebecca,

For writing to disk, specify a filename rather than just the directory name.

eg -f /backup/

Or alternatively, specify -f - and redirect output to your file:-

eg -f - > /backup/

fbackup can be very picky about DLT drives, check your patches and have a search of the ITRC for information about fbackup and DLT.

Regards,
John

Re: Fbackup

Darrel Louis — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:09:26 GMT

Hi,

If you do a ioscan -fnC tape
Is the DLT-tape claimed.

When you perform a tar or cpio to the tape device is it working?

If the driver used for this device is stape, make sure you have the latest stape patch installed..

Good Luck

Re: Fbackup

John Palmer — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:14:29 GMT

Hi again,

I've done a bit of digging around and your specific tape problem is supposed to be cured by the relevant stape cumulative patch (and its dependencies).

HPUX 11 - PHKL_20530
HPUX 10.20 - PHKL_20529

Regards,
John