Fbackup error 4301

[Paul Clark_3]

I am working on a L-Class hp-ux 11.0 OS
Patched to Sept2001

Having problems with restoring from tape created by fbackup.

Command used for frecover
frecover -xXg fgraph.txt -f :/dev/rmt/0m

but this is still returning 4301 error.
I used this yesterday to pick up a file that was not recovering from the tape. This worked successfully.
HOwever today I have tried to recover more files from the tape and am still getting error 4301. Why?
The recover is restoring the dirctory the files are in but not the files themselves.???

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Try using -v which may give you more info , also get the index of the files on the tape and ensure that your files are on the tape.

Paula

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi Paul

Your messages are defined in

/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/frecover.cat and frecover respectively

4301 reads

(4301): %s not recovered from backup media

As Paula stated, create an index of your tape to check the files exist

frecover -I /tmp/tape.idx

HTH

Steve

[Paul Clark_3]

I already have run the -I option and I know the files are on the tape but they are not being restored for some reason.
I know it makes no sense, I have even tried to use the hostname with the -f option and this still is not working.
The backup was taken from one server and put onto another. However the other system is a clone of the orginal.

[Darren Prior]

Hi Paul,

Try running frecover -rovNf /dev/rmt/0m >/tmp/recoverout

This will read the entire tape and produce a listing of all the files present in the backup. Check the /tmp/recoverout file for your problem files.

I did see a similar problem a couple of years back where certain files could not be pulled back from the tape, but using the hostname:device file method worked. I'm pretty sure this was fixed in a subsequent patch.

regards,

Darren.

[Ian Lochray]

I once had a very similar problem and the issue turned out to be the fact that I had logged on as me and then done an su to root. If I tried to frecover the file like this it did not work. If, however, I logged on directly as root then the file was recovered.

[Paul Clark_3]

Many thanks for you reply but I have already done this and the files are on the tape.
I am going to have to raise this as a call to HP.

Thanks for all your replies

Paul