Ignite Back up problem

[Utpal Krishna]

Hi

I am facing one problem during Ignite Backup(Make_Tape_Recovery),
I used to take Backup as follows:
make_tape_recovery -A -I -a /dev/rmt/0mn

But I am getting some warnings when i run this command.
Its saying, cannot take backup for more than 2GB file.(Attachment is there)

Can any anyone tell me the probable solution for it or can anyone tell me how to take Ignite Back up with file size more than 2 GB.

Or is there any way to take Ignite Backup excluding more than 2 GB files.

Thank

Utpal

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

Ignite is based on pax, a tar variant. Basic tar is limited to 2GB maximum file size.
You can always exclude your data & application directories, and backup them with fbackup.

regards,
Thierry.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

HI,

What hpux version are you running ?

Robert-Jan

[Utpal Krishna]

Hi

Thanks for the mail.
We are using HP-UX 11i
We need to take backup more than 2GB with Ignite is it possible.
If I want to exclude these 2GB which command will enable this to run the command.


Thanks

Utpal

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

HI Utpal,

Download and install the latest ignite software from

http://software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html#N01C0A538.02A39754

Your version 3.7.96 , latest 4.4

Download pax patch

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHCO_28414&context=hpux:800:11:11

Regards,
Robert-Jan.

[Massimo Bianchi]

And, overall, was ORACLE shut down ?

Massimo

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

Hi there,

make_tape_recovery is good to create a bootable backup for boot disk.

So better you create make_tape_recovery for vg00 only and backup for your other vg (seperated).

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

The solution for your problem will be on the next version on Ignite/UX.

And to exclude, you can use the '-x exclude=file|dir' option. Please see the man page of make_tape_recovery.

Hope this information can help.

Best Regards,
AW

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

You can try to use Robert Jan's advice by update the Ignite/UX into the latest one (version B.4.4.3) and install also the pax cummulative patch (PHCO_28414).

I saw this on patch sympthom (PHCO_28414) :

Any attempt to backup a file of size 2GB or greater using pax(1M) results in the following failure.

Remove the old Ignite/UX first before applying the latest Ignite/UX version.

If this can't resolve the problem, you can try to seperate the backup. Just using make_tape_recovery for bootable backup.

Hope this information can help.

Best Regards,
AW

[Utpal Krishna]

Hi

Thanks, everyone for nice reply, I think this will serve our purpose.

Utpal.