fbackup errors

[Tracy Hendler_2]

Hello,

I am looking for guidance on the following errors received after performing an fbackup.
fbackup(9999): Interrupted system call
fbackup(2004): WARNING: reader 0: 1st read error, firstread=98304, n=0
These repeat several times in the log file, however, the backup is completed and verified successfully. Any help would be appreciated.

T. Hendler

[Darren Prior]

Hi Tracy,

It sounds like you have a disk that's starting to fail. Check dmesg/syslog to see if there's any warning appearing - you could also try running the following dd to see if there's any further read errors.

dd if=/dev/vgxx/rlvolx of=/dev/null bs=4096k

regards,

Darren.

[Tracy Hendler_2]

Thank you Darren, I will check the syslog and run the dd to verify.

Tracy Hendler

[The Real MD · Accepted solution]

Try using TAR to recreate the error if so replace the disk as soon as possible.

Regards

Martin.

[generic_1]

You could also use stm to glance at your hardware's health. /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log is nice to look at as wel because it is timestamped vs dmesg.