topic Re: Make Recovery error in Operating System - HP-UX

Make Recovery error

Noa Harel_2 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 08:54:03 GMT

when running make recovery I get this massage:
"could not create the system recovery lock file...."
I checked if the ignite was running twice on the system - and it's not.

any idea?

Re: Make Recovery error

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:20:58 GMT

Hi,

Check your version of Ignite.
Better to use make_tape_recovery.

Quoting Bill Hassel,

VERY IMPORTANT: Ignite/UX uses pax as the backup tool so there is *no* support for large files. As long as none of your mounted filesystems allow large files, you could use Ignite/UX for multiple volume groups. But as many, many (very sorry) sysadmins will tell you: Don't try to append other backups to a single tape to save money!

However: pax is not very robust at all (it's just tar+cpio in a single utility). It lacks any error recovery capablity (a bad spot on the tape cannot be skipped), it lacks a central index (which means restoring one file may take hours), and will not handle exclusive open or locked files.

end quote

You can read more

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x95a73a1c04ffd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

Re: Make Recovery error

Noa Harel_2 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:27:21 GMT

There is no problem of large files.
I'm not using the same tape.
It works every week and it works fine. This is the first week that this problem occured.

Re: Make Recovery error

Rajeev Shukla — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:48:06 GMT

Can you make sure there is no lock file created in the /var/opt/ignite/logs directory

Re: Make Recovery error

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:34:44 GMT

Hi,

Can you find any indication what file is being locked ? any application running that was not running while you run the first ignite tapes ?

Look in

# cd /var/opt/ignite/logs/
# grep lock *

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

Re: Make Recovery error

Noa Harel_2 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:47:29 GMT

The Ignite proc. was not logged to the logs in /var/opt/ignite/logs/
any other sugestions?

Re: Make Recovery error

Rajeev Shukla — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:03:21 GMT

Remove this file and give a try it should definately work.

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile

This is a lock file which is created when ever a make recovery is done.

Cheers
Rajeev

Re: Make Recovery error

eran maor — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:20:36 GMT

Hi Noa

you can also call me but ..

You may need to remove the makrec_lkfile as follows:

1) Use the ps -ef command to check if make_recovery is already running.

2) ONLY IF IT IS NOT, remove the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile
and re-try.

Note: The error: make_recovery(204) means that it could not create
the System Recovery lock file, possibly because it may be in use, or due to a
permissions error.

Re: Make Recovery error

Noa Harel_2 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:48:06 GMT

Thank you all, guys.
I managed after all: I deleted the file /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makerec_lkfile and retried. It worked.

Re: Make Recovery error

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:23:56 GMT

you just had a run get killed. If it fails, it goes out and erases the lock file.

It happens to anyone that seriously uses Ignite.

Steve

Re: Make Recovery error

Edson Neri Schneider — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:18:12 GMT

Thanks,
It's solving my problem.

Remove this file and give a try it should definately work.

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile
This is a lock file which is created when ever a make recovery is done.