fbackup did not work.

[Simon Qu]

I used to use fbackup from SAM to do the cold full backup of our system. Since I applied some hp-ux 11i patches, now I have some probelm to use fbackup. The following is the error message I got:
br_backup:Invoking fbackup. See /var/sam/log/br_log for details.
fbackup(1421): no history is available for graph file /var/sam/graphLCAa28687 (below level 0)
fbackup(1004): session begins on Sun Dec 4 17:05:05 2005

It just stayed here and did nothing.

[Joseph Loo]

hi simon,

what is the exact command (with the arguments) u run for fbackup?

also, u may like to do something about the poor assignment of points:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/pageList.do?userId=CA886774&listType=unassigned&forumId=1

regards.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Are you sure that there was no activity .
fbackup will build an index of the to backup files before it starts and if a lot of them are open it can take forever.

Make sure

-v Run in verbose mode. Generates status messages that
are otherwise not seen.


Is set on your command


Steve Steel

[Marlou Everson]

The history for the graph file is kept in
/var/adm/fbackupfiles/dates. You may want to look in the dates file. Did you look at /var/sam/log/br_log for details?

Here is a sample of my dates file:

/etc/sam/br/graphXCAa06759 0 1068973205 1069000799
STARTED: Sun Nov 16 01:00:05 2003 ENDED: Sun Nov 16 08:39:59 2003
/etc/sam/br/graphXCAa06759 1 1069059603 1069065029
STARTED: Mon Nov 17 01:00:03 2003 ENDED: Mon Nov 17 02:30:29 2003

We switched to Data Protector that's why my example is from 2003.

Marlou