fbackup messages

[Peter Gillis]

Hello there - a quick one most likely.
Op Sys = ux11.0, 9000 series machine
fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client10121
fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 10384 was NOT backed up
Have been receiving messages as above, what do they really mean? What can I do to fix it up - stop what is causing them to appear?

Thanks, Maria

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi Maria,

Bascially any message that is reported from fbackup with 'WARNING' is just a message that something was missed.
The first item is a file was reported as being on the system, but when it was asked to be backed up had been removed.
This is quite a common occurance for files in /var/spool, /var/tmp /tmp
There is not a lot you can do about this, but re-direct the errors to a file. Have a look at the man page for fbackup in the -c config section. You can have a look at the fbackup error codes here;

# strings /usr/lib/nls/C/fbackup.cat

HTH
Michael

[S.K. Chan]

Basically between the time fbackup marks and build the index of the files it needs to backup and the time it actually does the backup, some files can be deleted during that elasped time. In this case the file involved is a socket file in
/var/spool/sockets/pwgr
The files in this dir are very dynamic and always being cleaned up by pwgrd daemon, hene have a short life-time. What you can do is the next time you run the fbackup use the "-e" option to exclude directories that tyically contains temporary files from being backed up.

[Peter Gillis]

Thanks for the info. This would have to be one of the best places to come for quick, reliable, helpful answers from friendly people.
Maria.

[Frank Slootweg]

Adding to the other responses:

You also got *other* messages with the same file number (10384), which will tell you *which* file (i.e. directory/file name) was not backed up.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Maria,

Unable to stat file means either the file does not exist or else the file does not have read permission for the user id that is trying to do the backup.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Bill Thorsteinson]

Consider adding an exclude
entry for this directort.

Is there anything in this directory you would need to
recover?

I do hot backups on our Oracle
databases, and exclude the
database files from the backup. Recovery, if needed,
is done from the hot backups
which are on tape and disk.