fbackup/frecover

[Gordon Brown_5]

Where can I get a definitive list of fbackup/frecover messages.

I am attempting to recover a file from a backup and receive the message.

frecover(1059) File filename found,but active/unrecoverable during this retry.

Files before and after this were recovered from the archive and no errors were reported during the backup run.

The file in question was active during the backup - it is an Oracle datafile that was in hot backup mode at the time.

I moved to fbackup from cpio after my files grew > 2Gb.

Command line in use is :

frecover -x -v -X -f /dev/rmt/1m -i oracle08 -i oracle05/oradata/cs33/rbs0201.dbf

Thanks for any input
G

[Chris Wilshaw]

Try

cd /usr/lib/nls/C

dumpmsg fnackup.cat

[Chris Wilshaw]

Or even

dumpmsg fbackup.cat

Typing too fast for myself today.

[T G Manikandan]

check this document

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063212093

[Gordon Brown_5]

Thanks for that Chris but that is just the error text, I would like to know why the file is unrecoverable; after all the drive has got past that file on the tape and I know that the original file is okay as the instance is running.
G

[Frank Slootweg]

The error (1059) means that, as you wrote, the file was active during *backup*, hence could not be (reliably) backed up and hence can not be restored.

See "active" in the fbackup(1M) manual page for details about active file handling.

Note: Some documents imply that the file might be recoverable, but I strongly advise against that because very, very likely the file (on tape) is corrupt *because* it was active during backup.

See for example the "rcfaxrestore002 - Frecover(1059) Error" document. I assume that that document is available on the ITRC.