Make Recovery error

[Noa Harel_2]

when running make recovery I get this massage:
"could not create the system recovery lock file...."
I checked if the ignite was running twice on the system - and it's not.

any idea?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check your version of Ignite.
Better to use make_tape_recovery.

Quoting Bill Hassel,

VERY IMPORTANT: Ignite/UX uses pax as the backup tool so there is *no* support for large files. As long as none of your mounted filesystems allow large files, you could use Ignite/UX for multiple volume groups. But as many, many (very sorry) sysadmins will tell you: Don't try to append other backups to a single tape to save money!

However: pax is not very robust at all (it's just tar+cpio in a single utility). It lacks any error recovery capablity (a bad spot on the tape cannot be skipped), it lacks a central index (which means restoring one file may take hours), and will not handle exclusive open or locked files.

end quote

You can read more

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x95a73a1c04ffd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Noa Harel_2]

There is no problem of large files.
I'm not using the same tape.
It works every week and it works fine. This is the first week that this problem occured.

[Rajeev Shukla]

Can you make sure there is no lock file created in the /var/opt/ignite/logs directory

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Can you find any indication what file is being locked ? any application running that was not running while you run the first ignite tapes ?

Look in

# cd /var/opt/ignite/logs/
# grep lock *

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Noa Harel_2]

The Ignite proc. was not logged to the logs in /var/opt/ignite/logs/
any other sugestions?

[Rajeev Shukla]

Remove this file and give a try it should definately work.

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile

This is a lock file which is created when ever a make recovery is done.

Cheers
Rajeev

[eran maor]

Hi Noa

you can also call me but ..


You may need to remove the makrec_lkfile as follows:

1) Use the ps -ef command to check if make_recovery is already running.

2) ONLY IF IT IS NOT, remove the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile
and re-try.

Note: The error: make_recovery(204) means that it could not create
the System Recovery lock file, possibly because it may be in use, or due to a
permissions error.

[Noa Harel_2]

Thank you all, guys.
I managed after all: I deleted the file /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makerec_lkfile and retried. It worked.

[Steven E. Protter]

you just had a run get killed. If it fails, it goes out and erases the lock file.

It happens to anyone that seriously uses Ignite.

Steve

[Edson Neri Schneider]

Thanks,
It's solving my problem.

Remove this file and give a try it should definately work.

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec_lkfile
This is a lock file which is created when ever a make recovery is done.