Ignite backup problem

[Waqar Razi]

I am trying to do ignite backup but I am having some problems in doing so. The backup seems to hung at the following point:

Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
* Creating System Configuration.
* /opt/ignite/bin/save_config -f
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2008-12-02,14:18/system_cfg vg00

I have changed the tapes but still the backup is not going beyond this point.

Can any one give me a clue?

[OldSchool]

what made you change the tape?

[Waqar Razi]

Because it is not moving beyond this point, so I assume that the tape is bad. Thats why I changed it.

[OldSchool]

doesn't appear that it ever got to the point where it would start writing to tape.

[Waqar Razi]

Any idea what to check and how to troubleshoot this problem.

[Dennis Handly]

>Any idea what to check and how to troubleshoot this problem.

Run tusc to see what it is doing?
Either now or start from the beginning.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

<<>>

before permoing Ignite backup,

# ioscan -fnC tape

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn status --> check the status wether tape, loaded than proceed to perform the make_tape_recovery

Check the recovery.log for make_tape_recovery

#cd /var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest/
# tail recovery.log

Thanks,
Johnson