HP Archive Backup System

[Carlo Corthouts]

I am fairly new to vms and have a question concerning an error which causes our backups to fail.


The error is :

xx:xx:xx COORD: -Line = 156, File = RESD$:[SRC]CATAPI_C_SHOW_CATALOG.C;1
xx:xx:xx COORD: ABS_NO_CATLG, The catalog does not exist
xx:xx:xx COORD: -Line = 112, File = RESD$:[SRC]CATAPI_S_SHOW_CATALOG.C;1
xx:xx:xx COORD: ABS_NO_CATLG, The catalog does not exist
xx:xx:xx COORD: -%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

Can anyone explain me what this error is about?

[Hakan Zanderau ( Anders]

Carlo,

I don't know anything about ABS, but the message is "The catalog does not exist"

It could mean that the directory [SRC] doesn't exist. The pointer to the physical location is missing. You can still see the filename, but you can't use it.

If you know the diskname, try

$ ANAL/DISK 'diskname'

Hakan

[Carlo Corthouts]

I have done some further investigation myself.

The logical points to an empty directory.

Any files that should have been in there have been removed. I suspect they were removed by someone doing a purge on the system.

[Jan van den Ende]

Carlo,

>>>
I suspect they were removed by someone doing a purge on the system.
<<<

VERY unlikely. PURGE lets (at least) ONE version of each file remaining.
Much more likely, the file was deleted or moved.

Has this ABS functioned correctly before, or is the configuration perhaps not yet completed?
Has the system been changed recently (moved, restored, Logical Names reDEFINEd, ... ) ??

More info increses the chance that we might be able to help better.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Carlo Corthouts]

Thanks for the reply.

ABS has been working correctly before, it is only since last friday that we are seeing this error.

No other changes have been made to the system as it is very strictly controlled for any changes.

[Volker Halle]

Carlo,

ABS is looking for the ABS catalogs using the logical name ABS$CATALOG.

- did someone change that logical ?
- did the system reboot prceeding the failure ?
- has the location of the catalog files changed and noone updated the logical name definition in ABS$SYSTARTUP.COM ?

Note: RESD$:[SRC] is the file name of the ABS source file directory used when building ABS from sources ! It has nothing to do with any directory on your system.

Volker.

[Carlo Corthouts]

There is no ABS$SYSTARTUP.COM

[Volker Halle · Accepted solution]

You can find the ABS documentation here:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/abs.html

ABS$SYSTARTUP.COM should be in SYS$STARTUP - if it has been implemented on this system.

Volker.

[Carlo Corthouts]

Found it, but is just the default one. Nothing
specific in there.

[Craig A]

It might also be that ABS only gets strarted on a restricted number of nodes in a cluster, and you might not be logged in to one of these nodes.

Craig