topic Re: Fbackup & Frecover in Operating System - HP-UX

Fbackup & Frecover

Tim Hawk — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:46:47 GMT

I used Fbackup to backup my system. Seems to have went successfully. All on one tape. When I try to restore via Frecover, after processing for a while, it says complete with Volume 1 (never said anything during the backup)insert volume 2. The issue is that there wasn't a volume 2 when I created the backup. I am trying to use Frecover across the network. Any thoughts?

Re: Fbackup & Frecover

Scott Van Kalken — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:54:28 GMT

If it's a one volume set, then it probably should say "complete with volume 1"

does it prompt for another tape?

Re: Fbackup & Frecover

Michael Tully — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:00:28 GMT

Hi,

When the backup was created was this done
across the network as well? If so what
options were used?

-Michael

Re: Fbackup & Frecover

Tim Hawk — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:04:45 GMT

During the restore, it does not prompt for another tape but ask for volume 2. Not sure if volume and tape are the same thing in this scenario. When I did the backup it never hinted at a multiple volume. Options I used during the backup was fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -v -g /usr/common/backup_qadV90_graph.

Restore options included:
frecover -f goofy.amtrim.com:/dev/rmt/0m -rv

I made the backup on one machine (test env) and was restoring it across the network to another machine that didn't have a tape drive.

Re: Fbackup & Frecover

Frank Slootweg — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:01:47 GMT

Do:

frecover -I /somepath/index

and

frecover -rNv 2>/somepath/filelist

I suspect that the index is much bigger (more filenames) than the filelist.

The index is what fbackup tried/intended_to get on the tape. The filelist is what is actually on the tape.

How did you do the fbackup? Yourself or via SAM? Interactive or a timed backup? Etc..

If a SAM timed ("Scheduled"?) backup, then you should have gotten an e-mail message informing you of the failure (needing another tape). Note that that e-mail message might refer to a *file* for details.