mae_recovery error

[Vogra]

Hi All!
I'm trying to make a make_recovery tape but I got the error below:
vsurjux1@root:/ #make_recovery -A -C -d /dev/rmt/2m
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(472): /usr/bin/dd failed,res=512,errno=9
Cleanup
vsurjux1@root:/ #

Anyone can help me?
Thanx.

[Clemens van Everdingen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

did you clean your tape drive and try again with new tape ?

Most of the times this is a solution.
Also could be a defect tape drive !

C.

[harry d brown jr]

Claudio,

It's probably a bad tape drive, or possibly the tape.

see these threads, I used this string to SEARCH with:

make_recovery(472): /usr/bin/dd failed,res=512,errno=9

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x24016d96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x94e1f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x2152af48a9e5d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x7aab14a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html



live free or die
harry

[Vogra]

Hi!
before your answers I got solutions searching here.
The tape was demaged. but the interesting was it was ok to work with tar or cpio. Only with make_recovery it got error.
Thanx.

[harry d brown jr]

make_recovery uses "pax", which you can do a "man pax" for more info. It creates a tar or cpio type tape. The issue with the bad tape is because the first FILE (archive if you want to call it that) is a BOOTABLE file that needs to be perfect, it can't handle IO errors of any type, whereas tar and cpio can adjust to some tape errors and continue.

live free or die
harry

[Helen French]

Hi Claudio:

Just an addition - The make_recovery has been replaced with the new utility make_tape_recovery. Update your system with the latest patches and you will be able to use this utility. This has more flexibility and options to use with.

HTH,
Shiju