Ignite warnings about no such file or directory

[Frank Copeland]

Is my Ignite backup tape going to be just fine for use in restore purposes?
We run hpux 11.11 on rp7420. 3 vPars each with a DAT tape drive for Ignite backup purposes. Ignite version C.6.1.44 is my current level. Every night we run a full Ignite backup of each vPar. Occasionally I get these messages and warning from one of the vPars:

pax: var/spool/lp/request/HPDP_1/tA3876lex06 : No such file or directory
pax: var/spool/lp/request/HPDP_1/dA3876lex06 : No such file or directory
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1).

Our make_tape_recovery is of course run inside of a ksh shell. The subsequent $? value upon completion is used to determine if the tape should be ejected, signifying successful backup, or remain in the drive to signal to an operator there was a problem. This warning returns a non-zero value so I'm always expected to track down the problem.

I think I'm OK in assuming (careful with that word) that it was simply a print file queuing up and printing when pax was collecting it's backup list of stuff. Then when it came time for Ignite to actually write the data to tape the printing had finished and the spooler simply deleted the files.

[DCE · Accepted solution]

Frank,

You are correct. These are just temporary files that had been deleted between the atart of the ignite process and the actual writong of the backup info.

I have these all the time. It does not affect the restore one iota. In fact I just did a DR test on several stystems, and all recovered 100%

[Chauhan Amit]

Hi Frank,

You can always ignore "WARNING" messages with Ignite , Backup will be perfect.
However "Error" messages are the one for which you will have to be craeful.

-Amit

[Bob Ingersoll]

You can use the "-P s" switch on the make_net_recovery command to suppress warning messages and the resulting exit code when a partial inclusion occurs.

I use this switch on all of our Ignite backups. Error messages are still reported as usual.

[Frank Copeland]

Each of these resonses was what I expected and more. Thanks so for your attention.

[Bob Ingersoll]

oops... Meant to say make_tape_recovery.