Frecover error messages

[Craig Stephens]

Could anyone tell me if there is a list of frecover error messages and perhaps a description of what they mean.

e.g. frecover(4305) not enough memory for allocate

Regards
Craig

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi craig,

Increase the value of the kernel parameter maxdsiz

See also

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870497

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Craig:

This one is self-explanatory. You do not have enough memory to run a recovery!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Hi,

The frecover messages are stored in a catalog file located at
/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/frecover.cat

As far as the frecover 4305 error is concerned, it indicates in-sufficient memory for its operation.

You need to check for memory utilization using # vmstat 5 5
Check for swap utilization using
# swapinfo -tam

If everything above is ok , then you need to increase "maxdsiz" kernel paramter. If it is 64MB , you can increase say to 128MB and then rebuild the kernel and reboot the system.

[Bill Hassell]

fbackup and frecover both use shared memory to hold all the file and directory names. If your backup has thousands of files, the memory requirements will be significant (75 to 150 megs) and the kernel limits for shared memory and local memory are likely way too small.

[Craig Stephens]

Many thanks for your replies guys.

For reference, the server is a RP74000 with 8Gb of memory and was built using an ignite tape.

The server had no users and no applications or databases running, so there was very little going on during the recovery.

The maxdsiz was set to 0x20000000 (512Mb), so it was upped to 0x80000000. The kernel was then rebuilt and the recovery completed just fine.

So, once again. Thanks for the assistance.

Craig

[Craig Stephens]

maxdsiz increased. Thread closed :o)