Ignite completed with warnings

[Vikas Thorat]

Hi Gurus,

I taken ignite tape backup on my Hp-Unix 11iV2 Itanium server. It got completed with warnings.

Please, have a look at recovery.log :

# make_tape_recovery -AvI -a /dev/rmt/1mn -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/extrnl1 -t "Ignite backup of ipmsapp7 on 26 Apr 2009"

# * Creating local directories for configuration files and archive.

======= 04/26/09 20:24:56 IST Started make_tape_recovery. (Sun Apr 26
20:24:56 IST 2009)
@(#)Ignite-UX Revision C.7.6.100
@(#)ignite/net_recovery (opt) Revision:
/branches/IUX_RA0806/ignite/src@73644 Last Modified: 2008-04-15
17:21:10 -0600 (Tue, 15 Apr 2008)

* Testing for necessary pax patch.
* Recovery Archive Description = Recovery Archive

* Recovery Archive Location = /dev/rmt/1mn

* Number of Archives to Save = 2

* Pax type = tar


In? dsk/vg name minor# Associated disks/mountpoints
1 v /dev/vg00 0x00 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 /dev/dsk/c10t0d0s2
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand 2
/dev/vg00/lvol2
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / 2
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /tmp 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /usr 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /var 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /home 2
/dev/vg00/lvol9 /extrnl1 0

** 0 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Not included in the
System Recovery Archive
** 1 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Partially included in the
System Recovery Archive
** 2 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Fully included in the
System Recovery Archive

* Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
* Scanning system for IO devices...
* Boot device is: 8/0/1/1/0.0.0
* Creating System Configuration.
WARNING: The volume group /dev/vg00 will be only partially included in the
System Recovery Archive. This means that not all files and
directories on this volume group will be restored when the archive is
installed. This message can be suppressed using the "-P s" option for
make_tape_recovery. See make_tape_recovery(1M) for more details.

* /opt/ignite/bin/save_config -f
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2009-04-26,20:24/system_cfg vg00
* Backing Up Volume Group /dev/vg00
* /usr/sbin/vgcfgbackup /dev/vg00
* Creating Map Files for Volume Group /dev/vg00
* /usr/sbin/vgexport -s -p -m /etc/lvmconf/vg00.mapfile /dev/vg00

* Creating Control Configuration.
* Creating Archive File List
* Creating Archive Configuration

* /opt/ignite/lbin/make_arch_config -c
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2009-04-26,20:24/archive_cfg -g
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2009-04-26,20:24/flist -n 2009-04-26,20:24 -r
ipf -b 64 -d Recovery\ Archive -t 22 -i 1 -m t
* Saving the information about archive to
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/previews
* Creating The Tape Archive
* Checking configuration file for Syntax
WARNING: You are about to create an Itanium-based recovery tape. If this
system does NOT support direct tape boot, you will need to perform
"two-step media recovery" where the boot media (CD or DVD) has the
same version of Ignite-UX as the version on this tape.
NOTE: File: /var/tmp/tmp_cfg_file is not world-readable, this may cause
clients to fail to read it during an installation.
NOTE: File: /tmp/cfg is not world-readable, this may cause clients to fail
to read it during an installation.
NOTE: File: /var/tmp/IINSTALLFS is not world-readable, this may cause
clients to fail to read it during an installation.
* Complete writing boot LIF onto tape.
* /opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image -c n -d /dev/rmt/1mn -t n -s
local -n 2009-04-26,20:24 -m t -w
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2009-04-26,20:24/recovery.log -u -R -g
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/2009-04-26,20:24/flist -a 17598930

* Preparing to create a system archive.

* Archiving contents of ipmsapp7 via tar image to local device /dev/rmt/1mn.
* Creation of system archive complete.
NOTE: The following files are in the list of files that were on the
system, but they are no longer present. These files are not
included in the backup:
/var/tmp/Ex21430
/var/tmp/aaaa21429

* Archive created and rewind the tape to beginning of tape.

NOTE: Could not read the /etc/resolv.conf file.
* Cleaning up old configuration file directories

======= 04/26/09 21:31:04 IST make_tape_recovery completed with warnings

Can you please, help me out to understand whereis the problem in this activity and how could I able to resolve it and get the ignite tape backup without any warnings or error.

Thanks in advance.

Points will assigned on correct responce.

regards,

Vikas Thorat

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The only WARNING message I see is:

******
WARNING: The volume group /dev/vg00 will be only partially included in the
System Recovery Archive. This means that not all files and
directories on this volume group will be restored when the archive is
installed. This message can be suppressed using the "-P s" option for
make_tape_recovery. See make_tape_recovery(1M) for more details.
******

This is because you excluded a file system / logical volume when you created the make_tape_recovery tape.

If you notice you LV listing here:

******
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand 2
/dev/vg00/lvol2
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / 2
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /tmp 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /usr 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /var 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /home 2
/dev/vg00/lvol9 /extrnl1 0

** 0 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Not included in the
System Recovery Archive
** 1 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Partially included in the
System Recovery Archive
** 2 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Fully included in the
System Recovery Archive
******

/dev/vg00/lvol9 */extrnl1) has a '0' after it. That means it is not included, due to your "-x exclude=/extrnl1" option on the command line.

The last sentence in the WARNING message above tells you what to do. "This message can be suppressed using the "-P s" option for
make_tape_recovery. See make_tape_recovery(1M) for more details."

[Proboi]

Hi Vikas,
This message is because it did not backup /extrnl1 which again belongs to VG00, so it makes sense when it says that it is partially backing up VG00, cause we told it to be exclude'd

i can see that it successfully backed up all the other lvols, forget "lvol2" ( swap/dump ) ignite skips it by default

more than "WARNING" you need to be worried about "ERRORS" and i dont see any!!

your Ignite backup seems to have completed successfully

Don't worry too much about " WARNING" its just informational, now that your system is successfully backed up hope you can sleep well :)