question on backup log

[ng_7]

hi, guy, allow me to ask stupid question again :

1. 1 block is equivalent to how many mb ?
2. the total block write to output is different with total read blocks, does it mean my backup got problem ? is yes where to trace the error ?

thanks


/home/oraprod/dbackup.sh: /home/applprod/fbkp.log: Cannot create the specified file.
fbackup(1004): session begins on Fri Jun 8 02:30:00 2007
fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /backup/prod
fbackup(3055): total file blocks read for backup: 162486343
fbackup(3056): total blocks written to output file /backup/prod: 162637358

[skt_skt]

It does not looks like erroored. Try to check the exit code of the fbackup command in the script.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

1 block (for fbackup) is 1024Bytes (1KiB). There actually is no standard definition of a "block"; it entirely depends upon the application and/or context.

The output file is larger than the sum of the inut files because of overhead. The backup must also record the metadata associated with each file (e.g. mtime,ctime,uid,gid,mode,size) plus possibly some padding.

[ng_7]

so do you mean that my backup should be no problem ?

[ng_7]

my backup file size is about 79GB, but if you said 1 block = 1024bytes, then the total read and output is should be about 162GB right ? why there is such a big different ?