topic Re: Patch Analysis in Operating System - HP-UX

Patch Analysis

Waqar Razi — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:41:04 GMT

We need to do patch analysis between two hpux 10.20 servers. On one server, backup is failing, can some one suggest the best way to do it?

Re: Patch Analysis

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:49:48 GMT

Hi Wagar:

At 10.20...which is long out of support (since circa 1999), you're best choice is probably (simply):

# swlist

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patch Analysis

Grayh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:20:10 GMT

Also the following doc... can be of help

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90154/ch05s03.html

Re: Patch Analysis

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:45:36 GMT

Shalom,

My advice is get new hardware and migrate.

Get away from 10.20 unless you are the US Navy and can afford support.

SEP

Re: Patch Analysis

Waqar Razi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:13:57 GMT

We will be replacing this system with SAP, thats why we havent upgraded it to 11i.

I have another question. We have upgraded the DataProtector from 5.5 to 6. The cell manager is running on RX8620 running 11.23. We have few 10.20 servers, all of them working fine except one. The problem we are having with this server is that after backing up 2 G of data, the backup process just stops and then dies out.

All other 10.20 servers have online JFS installed except this server. It doesnt have online JFS installed on it.

Can any one give me some suggestion in this regard.

Re: Patch Analysis

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:29:10 GMT

Hi (again) Wagar:

> We have few 10.20 servers, all of them working fine except one. The problem we are having with this server is that after backing up 2 G of data, the backup process just stops and then dies out.

If you are writing to a disk filesystem, then it appears that your filesystem doesn't have 'largefiles' enabled.

Since you say you don't have OnlineJFS installed, do:

# unmount /mountpoint
# fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vgNN/rlvolX
# mount /dev/vgNN/lvolx /mountpoint

...note the use of the raw device in the 'fsadm' arguments.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patch Analysis

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:31:21 GMT

Hi (again) :

...and if you convert a no-largefiles to a largefiles filesystem, be sure that you specifiy the matching state in '/etc/fstab'. That is, if you '/etc/fstab' has 'nolargefiles' and your actual filesystem is converted to 'largefiles', the next time you reboot, you will wonder why the filesystem didn't mount.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patch Analysis

Waqar Razi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:48:48 GMT

Let me explain this thing in more detail. The server has DLT tape drive attached to it and we do full backup every night. While backing up to tape, the backup process stales when the amount of data being backed up is more than 2 G.

Do you think it is due to no largfile support?

How can I check if a file system is created with largfiles support.

Re: Patch Analysis

Dennis Handly — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:09:19 GMT

>Do you think it is due to no largefile support?

If you copy to a temporary file, yes. If you write directly to tape, I don't see how, unless the application doesn't support files that large.

Re: Patch Analysis

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:16:44 GMT

Hi (again):

> How can I check if a file system is created with largfiles support.

# fsadm -v /dev/vgNN/rlvolX

...will retunr 'largefiles' or 'nolargefiles'.

Regards!

...JRF...