Fbackup

[Rebecca Hounschell]

I have found that tar has a 2 gb limit even with largefiles enabled. Therefore, I am using fbackup to store 28 gb to a dds tape. I have added a dlt tape drive to this system but fbackup will not write to this drive nor can I get it to write to a disk file that I created as /backup. The error that I get when trying to write to the dlt is:
"/dev/rmt/1m" is not a valid device file for backup, writer aborting. I have tried /dev/rmt/1mn and BEST but get the same error. When I try to write to /backup (which is a 35gb file) I get this error: "at least one output file must be specified". These are the commands I used: "/usr/sbin/fbackup -0i /u00/oradata -f /dev/rmt/1m or /backup". Can you please tell me how to get fbackup to write to the dlt drive or the disk file. Thank you.

[John Palmer]

Hi Rebecca,

For writing to disk, specify a filename rather than just the directory name.

eg -f /backup/

Or alternatively, specify -f - and redirect output to your file:-

eg -f - > /backup/

fbackup can be very picky about DLT drives, check your patches and have a search of the ITRC for information about fbackup and DLT.

Regards,
John

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

If you do a ioscan -fnC tape
Is the DLT-tape claimed.

When you perform a tar or cpio to the tape device is it working?

If the driver used for this device is stape, make sure you have the latest stape patch installed..

Good Luck

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

I've done a bit of digging around and your specific tape problem is supposed to be cured by the relevant stape cumulative patch (and its dependencies).

HPUX 11 - PHKL_20530
HPUX 10.20 - PHKL_20529

Regards,
John