Error message when using vdump

[mohamed mady]

Dear all

I have a GS140 with TRU64
That server is used as both a web server and mail server
When I am trying to backup my mail boxes with vdump it work fine but when trying to do backup for user web pages the error message appear

Plz refer to attached file for the command and result error message

Regards

[Ann Majeske]

The error message tells you what is wrong. If you want to vdump a directory tree (instead of a full filesystem) you must use the -D option. See the vdump man page.

[Kapil Jha]

man vdump says
-D Performs a level 0 backup on the specified subdirectory. This option
overrides any backup level specification in the command. If this option
is specified, the AdvFS user and group quota files and the fileset
quotas are not backed up.

It seems that this fileset is not mounted.
Please check that.
BR,
Kapil

[mohamed mady]

dear all
i dont know how to check if the fileset is mounted or not?
and if its not mounted how to mount it?
and if i mount that fileset does that affect the free space in (/) partition ?
regards

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

you should see it with mount.
If it is supposed to be a mount point then it should be in /etc/fstab.
Otherwise use as said the -D option, which allows you to use a start point for vdump below the mount point. I would not worry about that. Have a look whether the data is there and then dump it.

greetings,

Michael

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

You are trying to vdump /usr/users/IASS_Usr
This is a directory within the fileset users in the file domain users_domain.

If you do a df on /usr/users you'll get the filedomain#fileset information, that is shown on your original picture.

Around here on my test virtual alpha, trying to vdump /usr/bin which is a subdirectory of /usr gives the same error you got.

# vdump -0uf /tmp/test.vdump /usr/bin
path : /usr
dev/fset : usr_domain#usr
type : advfs
advfs id : 0x4803a13d.000c0df0.1
vdump: /usr/bin is not a mounted fileset; mount fileset or use -D to dump.


# df /usr/bin
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
usr_domain#usr 5234352 728178 4473472 14% /usr

If I modify the vdump command as suggested by the error message:

# vdump -0 -Du -f /tmp/test.vdump /usr/bin
path : /usr/bin
dev/fset : usr_domain#usr
type : advfs
advfs id : 0x4803a13d.000c0df0.1
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 70463305 bytes, 8 directories, 622 files
vdump: Dumping regular files

vdump: Status at Mon Apr 14 22:31:09 2008
vdump: Dumped 70463305 of 70463305 bytes; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped 8 of 8 directories; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped 622 of 622 files; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Mon Apr 14 22:31:09 2008

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

(text file attached in case the formatting of the above messes up.)