fbackup is returning funny information

[Christophe MAILHE]

Hi everybody,

I have a small issue with fbackup returning some funny information on one of my server :

fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used 0 time(s)

or sometimes :

fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used -1 time(s)

Does someone has an idea about what could could this issue.

Thanks,

Chris.

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

The vaule {X} time(s) is the Media Use field which is kept on the actual tape. Normally this value is always 0 (ie. a new tape) but I guess if you use a tape which has non fbackup data on it then fbackup wont even find a zero (maybe a non numeric value) and so returns a -1 value.

Are you using tapes which have previous fbackup sessions on them ?

Do you have the latest fbackup patch on this server ? (PHCO_23854 for 11.0)

[Steve Steel]

Hi

This is just to tell you how often the tape has been written. There is a header it reads.

It is not an issue

see

dumpmsg /usr/lib/nls/C/fbackup.cat |more

Steve Steel

[Christophe MAILHE]

Hi Stefan,

I am going to check the last patch update for fbackup.

This is probably where the issue come from.

The tapes I am speaking about here are daily backup and so have contained fbackup backups previously.

I havn't been trying to read the header, but the header is there as I don't have an unreadable header error message.

Many thanks,

Chris.