Ignite restoration problem...

[piyush mathiya]

Hi Gurus,

I have taken Ignite backup with the command "make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn -v -n 5" which got completed successfully. Now while restoring it to some other server I am getting below error.

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The pre-installation analysis detected one or more ERRORS. The installation may not proceed until these errors are resolved.

ERROR: The mount point for "lvol11backup" is either NULL or the NULL string. This is not a valid mount point.

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ON THE SERVER...
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# bdf /dev/vg00/lvol1backup
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol1backup
298928 67536 201496 25%

# lvdisplay /dev/vg00/lvol1backup
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1backup
VG Name /dev/vg00
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 304
Current LE 38
Allocated PE 38
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block off
Allocation strict/contiguous
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

# uname -a
HP-UX XXXXXXX B.11.11 U 9000/800 3739200431 unlimited-user license

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Seems "lvol1backup" is exist but not mounted anywhere, may be not in use. Please suggest me how to proceed.
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[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

You need to do one of two things:

1) Fix the source system and exclude the mount point lvol1backup form the image.

2) Manually intevervene at the Ignite interface and make changes to get past this error. You will have to see what logical volumes are present and you may wish to delete this one.

SEP

[piyush mathiya]

Steaven,

Yeah, I guess this can help me. In this below output all lvol with the name of backup is not in use. how to exclude it in ignite backup...?


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# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00 | grep "LV Name" | sort -k 2
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol10
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol10backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol11
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol11backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol13
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol13backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol17
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol17backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8backup
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol9
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol9backup
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Regards,
Piyush Mathiya

[piyush mathiya]

Gone through some old Threads & found the below steps to do so. Just want to confirm before implement on my production box.

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-x exclude=/dev/vg00/lvol1backup

OR

-f /tmp/filename
Where file name contains below information.

exclude /dev/vg00/lvol8backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol10backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol7backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol4backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol9backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol6backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol17backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol13backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol5backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol11backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol2backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol1backup
exclude /dev/vg00/lvol3backup

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Regards,
Piyush Mathiya

[Pete Randall]

If you truly have all those "backup" lvols, I would definitely go with your second method - it's simpler and accomplishes what you need.


Pete

[piyush mathiya]

Thanks Pete...:)