Is this make_tape_recovery message critical?

[Randy Hagedorn]

Hi,

I did a make_tape_recovery and received the following messages just before completion of the tape.

Is this a critical error that woudld invalidate the tape?

Does anyone know how I can correct it, if possible?

pax: home/oracle/ mphome/uxis : No such file or directory
WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
* 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 back-up:
/var/tmp/ign_configure/make_sys_image.log

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

======= 11/05/02 08:27:47 CST make_tape_recovery completed with warnings

Thanks,
Dewy

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

As noted, this is a warning only. A list of files is built for transfer before the actual transfer (copy) occurs. At the time of the actual transfer to tape, the noted files had been removed, hence the warning.

Regards!

...JRF...

[S.K. Chan]

It's probably safe to ignore this message. It looks like the file somehow got deleted before the image copy begins. What is that file, "uxis" ? This is probably unrelated but it's good to make sure too that you got the latest pax cumulative patch installed. It solves all kinds of "limitation" problems like (ACLs, handling of symlink, etc, etc).

[Randy Hagedorn]

Hi thanks for your help so far.

Please excuse my ignorance, there is sooooo much to learn, but what is pax?

Thanks in advance.
Huggy

[Cheryl Griffin]

pax is what writes out the archive, like tar.

# man pax
pax(1)

NAME
pax - Extracts, writes, and lists archive files


Cheryl

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Dewy:

'pax' is a cousin of 'tar' and a superior utility to 'tar' in my opinion. Have a look at the man pages for 'pax' to see its capabilities.

Regards!

...JRF...

[S.K. Chan]

In addition pax can be used to read cpio and tar archives plus a nice feature to pax is that it can extract relative path backups (done with tar & cpio).