topic Re: fbackup problem in Operating System - HP-UX

fbackup problem

Rigoberto Barocio_1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:44:00 GMT

Hi,
when i perform a full backup, this backup never start the screen apears the same(white) and nothing doesn't work, in the br_log show that the backup its start but never end, so i must to kill the process after hour's.

thanks!!!

Re: fbackup problem

Deoncia Grayson_1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:04:42 GMT

How big are the filesystems that you are performing a back up of? Are you executing the fbackup from the command log? Have you tried using SAM to execute the backup?

Re: fbackup problem

Rigoberto Barocio_1 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:05:53 GMT

I use SAM to perform backup, and the filesystem
it's not to large about 35gb.

Re: fbackup problem

Alexander M. Ermes — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:16:44 GMT

Hi there.
Pls try the command line version of fbackup.
For help look at the man pages.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: fbackup problem

Steve Steel — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:23:45 GMT

Hi

Does this work

/etc/fbackup -0vi/tmp -f/dev/rmt/0m

Simple backup of /tmp

How long does it take

Check your log files for errors

Steve Steel

Re: fbackup problem

Bill Hassell — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:20:54 GMT

fbackup must first scan the entire backup scope (the filesystems that will be included in the backup) and make entries into a shared memory block of RAM. If these are small files, there could be millions and it will take a very long time to get started (no tape movement), especially if the system is also quite busy. You could run ipcs -bmop to look at the size of this shared memory area. If it continues to grow, then fbackup hasn't finished compiling the table of contents. fbackup will also wait/retry for a long time when a file is locked.