Ignite make_recovery problem

[Alok_9]

I have installed Ignite version B on HP 11 and also installed the patch for pax 25418 on clients Still i am getting this problem for taking recovery of the entire disk. Pls help me out

regards
Alok Jain
Software Engineer & System Administrator
Jaipur


Adding /opt/ignite/Version file to LIF.
43471+1 records in
43471+1 records out
* /opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image -c n -d /dev/rmt/0mn -t n -s
local -n 2003-12-09,19:09 -m t -w /var/opt/ignite/recovery/client_mnt/
0x0010837A4FE5/recovery/2003-12-09,19:09/recovery.log -u -R -g /var/op
t/ignite/recovery/client_mnt/0x0010837A4FE5/recovery/2003-12-09,19:09/
flist -a 6639030

* Preparing to create a system archive

* Archiving contents of nap11 via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/0mn.
pax: Unable to prompt user: /dev/tty is unavailable.
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
* Creation of system archive complete

ERROR: The make_sys_image command failed. The system recovery archive will
not be created.


======= 12/09/03 20:28:22 IST make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

[Steven E. Protter]

swverify \*

see if pax or Ignite is corrupt.

It sure looks like pax is screwed.

SEP

[Patrick Wallek]

This message is the key:

pax: Unable to prompt user: /dev/tty is unavailable.

This means that pax is trying to prompt you for something, most likely another tape. Depending on how much data you are attempting to back up, and the type of tape drive you are using, you could be filling up a tape. If this happens pax, like tar, will attempt to prompt you to insert another tape. If it can't, then your make_tape_recovery will fail.

I would do a test of the tape to see how far it is getting.

Do this:

# mt -t /dev/rmt/?mn rew
# mt -t /dev/rmt/?mn fsf 1
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/?mn

Note - Be sure to substitute the appropriate tape device file number in place of the question mark (?).

Let the tar run and see what the last file in the list is and see if you get prompted to insert the next tape.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Are you using cron to run it .

Then you could get this situation.

The command make_tape_recovery detects the absence of a /dev/tty when it is run from cron resulting in a warning and non-zero exit status.

If multiple tapes are needed then a background run will always fail.

Steve Steel