topic Problem with make_tape_recovery in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with make_tape_recovery

hemant dubey_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:55:05 GMT

I am taking recovery backup of my system but it is completed with following warnins however it is asking for second media and tape operator confirm that it is still writing on first media an operator is unable to load the second media. so type quit and the following message is displayed..

* Archiving contents of fsc004 via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/0mn.
pax: Ready for volume 2
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go
Continuing
pax: Ready for volume 3
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go
Continuing
pax: Ready for volume 4
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go
Continuing
pax: Ready for volume 5
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go
Continuing
pax: Ready for volume 6
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): quit
pax: Aborted
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
* Creation of system archive complete
NOTE: The following files are in the list of files that were on the
system, but they are no longer present. These files are not
included in the back-up:
/var/tmp/ign_configure/make_sys_image.log
/var/spool/cron/tmp/croutRTGa01268

WARNING: There was a problem with the list of files/directories to archive.
Input: /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2007-10-23,06:10/flist
The following line(s) had too few/incorrect entries in each of them.
Problem lines:
line: 41 home/cdba/integrity/cache41_20050909.log 100775 1126261431 120079 118
* Cleaning up old configuration file directories

======= 10/23/07 07:30:28 BST make_tape_recovery completed with warnings
fsc004:[/opt/ignite/binpa] # echo $?
2
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Please suggest me if the problem is with the pax command which is called by make_tape_recovery or problem is with drive/tape

Re: Problem with make_tape_recovery

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:04:44 GMT

I would check the tape drive first.

Something I/O related in syslog?
Try to write to the tape (e.g. dd, tar ...)
Successful?

Re: Problem with make_tape_recovery

Dennis Handly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:09:20 GMT

Isn't the problem because you typed "quit" instead of "go" on volume 6??

Re: Problem with make_tape_recovery

hemant dubey_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:32:15 GMT

i have checked with dd command tape is ok
fsc004:[/var/adm/syslog] # dd if=/home/hdubey/sudoers of=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=2k
1+1 records in
1+1 records out
fsc004:[/var/adm/syslog] #

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as it is asking for second media but operator tried to change the media he reported that light is blinking tape is still written.... i have tried 4-5 times by typing go on same media and in the end i have typed "quit" to abort......

Re: Problem with make_tape_recovery

Dennis Handly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:48:56 GMT

>as it is asking for second media but operator tried to change the media he

Was he/you able to change the media 5 times?
You might want to eject the tape in between.

Re: Problem with make_tape_recovery

Ludovic Derlyn — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:58:46 GMT

Hi,

I have encountered this error once time,
capacity of my dat was too small
No message error , but when i tried to restore, same errors messages
I have relaunched ignite on other DAT (size more important) and it's ok

Regards
L-DERLYN