Ignite Issues

[JOHN TURNER_2]

hello

im having some issues with trying to take an ignite backup, im getting the same error across 3 servers. The servers are running hp-ux 11.00, and when i run the make_tape_recovery, i get the following error

** 2 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Fully included in the
System Recovery Archive

* Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
ERROR: Failed to open tape device /dev/rmt/0mn:Device busy (errno = 16).
ERROR: Check tape device failed.


======= 03/16/07 07:18:18 EDT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully


i have checked and there is a tape in the drive, its rewound and it works because i took an fbackup to prove the functionality of the device.

Any thoughts

J

[Chan 007]

John,

Can you provide the complete command that you type. I guess there should be a syntax error in what you type.

Chan

[JOHN TURNER_2]

#make_tape_recovery -Avd /dev/rmt/0mn

[Chan 007]

Hi,

Try the following and let us know.

make_tape_recovery -A -I -p -v -x inc_entire=/dev/vg00 -a /dev/rmt/0mn

Also are you sure that you have the tape dirve @0mn and you are using the correct tapes.

Chan

[JOHN TURNER_2]

Hi the command works, but as soon as i change the -p to a -r the command fails with the following output:

NOTE: ******* RESUMING *******
NOTE: archive size: 8651430 kB
NOTE: last preview is on 2007-03-16,09:23
NOTE: The archive name is 2007-03-16,09:23
NOTE: The archive description Recovery Archive
NOTE: The archive is on local tape drive /dev/rmt/0mn
NOTE: The pax option is tar
NOTE: You want to resume archive creation from the configuration files
locally on this system.
NOTE: In Resume Mode. Do you wish to continue?
Continue?(y/n)y
ERROR: Failed to open tape device /dev/rmt/0mn:Device busy (errno = 16).
ERROR: Check tape device failed.

======= 03/16/07 10:48:07 EDT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully
root@davlcn05:/opt/ignite/bin >

[IT_2007]

can you post output of

ioscan -fnCtape

[Court Campbell]

All you really need is:

make_tape_recovery -I -x inc_entire=/dev/vg00

make_tape_recovery uses /dev/rmt/0mn by default. Unless you really like typing, or you changed the default unless you made a change in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/default.

[Court Campbell]

Also, the -p is not going to error out because it is a preview.

[DCE]

John the command I use is:
make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/4mn -x inc_entire=vg00

Have you performed a
ps- ef | grep rmt
and
ps -ef | grep -i ignite
to see if there are any hung processes?

[JOHN TURNER_2]

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
==================================================================================
tape 0 0/0/1/0.3.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C1537A
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDS
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSb
/dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTn /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSn
/dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSnb

this is the output from the ioscan -fnC tape, and all the other varieties of the make_tape_recovery produce the same error

[Court Campbell]

do a

fuser -u /dev/rmt/0mn

see if some process is using the device.

[Court Campbell]

I was reading another post and I was reminded that you could also use lsof to see if something is using the device.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.77/