Failed to ignite restore from a tape

[aungshu]

Hi,

One of our customer has rp8420 server and HP-UX 11.23 OS.  Currently they tried to ignite restore from a tape and the restore process stop with following error :

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 * Extending logical volume "vg00/lvolomni" (unused).

       * Extending logical volume "vg00/lvswap1" (swap).

       * Making HFS filesystem for "/stand", (/dev/vg00/rlvol1).

mkfs (hfs): Cannot read from the device

mkfs (hfs): I/O error

ERROR:   newfs command failed: (/sbin/fs/hfs/newfs -L -s 327680 -b 65536 -f 8192 -c 32 -m 10 -i 9395 -o nolargefiles /dev/vg00/rlvol1).

The configuration process has incurred an error, choose one of the following options

        1) abort and reboot

        2) ignore error and continue

        3) push a shell for troubleshooting the problem

        (At any time within the shell, type "exit" to return to this menu)

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Customer has multiple set of ignite tape. So after the 1st attemp failure they tried to restore from a 2nd tape. But this time the restore again failed with following error :

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       * Making VxFS filesystem for "/source", (/dev/vg00/rlvolsource).

       * Setting rotational delay to 0 for "/stand".

vxfs: WARNING: msgcnt 1 mesg 037: V-2-37: vx_metaioerr - vx_olt_read - /dev/vg00/lvol3 file system meta data read error in dev/block 0/18464

ERROR:   Could not mount VxFS "/dev/vg00/lvol3" at "/d_cfg_mnt_sb61/": I/O error (errno = 5).

The configuration process has incurred an error, choose one of the following options

        1) abort and reboot

        2) ignore error and continue

        3) push a shell for troubleshooting the problem

        (At any time within the shell, type "exit" to return to this menu)

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After that they tried to restore the  backup in a different test server and it was sucessful. Can anyone assist what is the problem? Is it in the tape cartridge or something else?

Thanks in advanced for assistance.

BR \\ AUngshu

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

It sounds like the problem may not be with the Ignite tape but with the disk itself.  If you have another disk drive, install it and try restoring from the Ignite tape again.

[Dennis Handly]

>It sounds like the problem may ... with the disk itself.

It sure looks like it:

ERROR:   newfs command failed: (/sbin/fs/hfs/newfs ...  /dev/vg00/rlvol1).

vxfs: WARNING: ...  /dev/vg00/lvol3 file system meta data read error

Are these the same physical disk?

Strangely, the first had /stand as HFS the second as VXFS?