frecover(5435): malloc error while attempting to read index

[Donghee Lee]

hi.. everyone..
i got above message when i try to user frecover from LTO Drive , Ultrium 230.

i backuped like this on my machine , HP-UX 11.00 64bit .

# /usr/sbin/fbackup -c /var/adm/fbackupfiles/config -f /dev/rmt/3m -i /user06/Image

nothing special on config file here..
[root@pac:/] cat /var/adm/fbackupfiles/config
maxretries 2
maxvoluses 1000
error /var/adm/fbackupfiles/error

and then try to restore on another machine , HP-UX 11.00 64bit.
here is the command i tried to restore..

# /usr/sbin/frecover -Xxf /dev/rmt/1m -i /user06/Image


Error occurred..
frecover(5435): malloc error while attempting to read index
frecover(4301): /user06/Lover_Image not recovered from backup media
frecover(5435): malloc error while attempting to read index
frecover(4301): /user06/* not recovered from backup media
frecover(5435): malloc error while attempting to read index
frecover(4301): /user06/Lover_Image/* not recovered from backup media


Plz... help me..

[A. Clay Stephenson]

On the 2nd machine, you need to check and probably increase the setting the maxdsiz and/or maxdsiz_64bit kernel paramters. It is also possible that you are running out of swap but much more likely maxdsiz is too small.

[Donghee Lee]

thanks A. Clay
increasing maxdsiz_64bit worked..

[steven Burgess_2]

Donghee

Don't forget to award points to A Clay for his help

Regards

Steve