topic Re: fbackup error message in Operating System - HP-UX

fbackup error message

j773303 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:45:22 GMT

Does anyone has the experience about the below fbackup error message? What's the mean of the "fbackup(9999): Permission denied" ? Thanks.

fbackup(1421): no history is available for graph file /usr/local/bin/cthuang/fba
ckupDB.wrk (below level 0)
fbackup(1004): session begins on Fri Mar 26 00:01:22 2004
fbackup(3205): WARNING: unable to read a volume header
fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/0m
fbackup(9999): Permission denied
fbackup(3108): write error on a record in the ANSII label
fbackup(3025): write error at the beginning of the volume
fbackup(3310): enter '^[yY]' when volume 1 is ready on /dev/rmt/0m,
or '^[nN]' to discontinue:
fbackup(3004): writer aborting
fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit

Re: fbackup error message

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:54:38 GMT

If you are not running as root then check the permissions on /dev/rmt/0m; you probably don't have write permissions on the device node OR the media is write-protected.

Re: fbackup error message

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:08:48 GMT

Hi,

This will help you in troubleshooting:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=365126

hth.

Re: fbackup error message

Kent Ostby — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:13:15 GMT

I have seen this when a process dies that still has a lock on the device file.

Run:

fuser /dev/rmt/0m

and see which processes are locking that file then use, ps and kill to identify and kill them.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

Re: fbackup error message

j773303 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:37:09 GMT

Hi,
I have try many times and replace tape for the testing, but the result still the same. I'm concerned about "fbackup(9999): Permission denied" message. Is it possible tape drive bad? Thanks.