Ignite-UX Question???

[Shaun Aldrich_1]

Hello Everyone,

Please see below a copy of the output on my X terminal that was created while I was creating an Ignite tape of a production server. Has anyone seen this error before?


Option -A specified. Entire Core Volume Group/disk will be backed up.



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HP-UX System Recovery
Going to create the tape.
System Recovery Tape successfully created.
Option -A specified. Entire Core Volume Group/disk will be backed up.



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HP-UX System Recovery
Going to create the tape.
make_recovery(491): Archive creation failed. errno=0
make_recovery(476): Call to /usr/bin/pax failed. errno=9
Cleanup
Option -A specified. Entire Core Volume Group/disk will be backed up.


I have aborted the session and tried again at the console and after about one hour the message appeared on the console screen displaying the following:

pax: Ready for volume 2
pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed ( or "quit" to abort)

Here I typed "go" and after I while longer it came back stating the the Tape was Successfully created.

Has anyone experienced this before? I myself have never seen pax: Ready for volume 2.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Is there a log file that I can verify that the tape is actually good?

Thanks,

S Aldrich

[Patrick Wallek]

Shaun,

Ignite-UX uses pax to write the data to the tape when doing a make_recovery. pax writes the files to tape in a format that is also readable by tar.

Anyway..... The second message you saw, saying it was waiting for volume 2, means that your archive filled up the first tape, and you should take it out, put in a second tape, type go, and let it proceed. This is akin to the message you get when tar fills up a tape and allows you to change tapes to continue the tar archive.

You will want to make sure that you have the latest pax patch on your system. I am running 10.20 and the pax patch I have is PHCO_20388.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Shaun:

'pax' is a tar-like utility used by Ignite. Clearly you required more than one tape to compose the Ignite make_recovery archive -- you must have a large VG00 or a small tape.

/var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 will show you a history of Ignite make_recovery sessions and their success or failure.

...JRF...

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

As Patrick already mentioned, check if you have the latest Pax patch installed.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html#pax1

Good Luck

Darrel