make_recovery just hangs

[Cindy Wolford]

It's been 6 months since my last recovery tape was made....so I figured it's time to make a new one.

It is hanging almost at the end of the process:
"Creating the configuration file."
cursor is sitting on this line

I hit Ctrl-C the first time because I thought maybe it had died (over 45 minutes of sitting there)....and I decided to try it again. But, it's over an hour now and it's still hung at the same spot.

Here is the command I typed:
/opt/ignite/bin/make_recovery -p -v -A -C

It's just the preview only right now.....

Any help/ideas/suggestions are appreciated.
TIA!
Cindy

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Try
#make_recovery -A

[eran maor]

Hi

i will check if the pax patch is install and if there is hard or soft link to the system

i had a client with all most the same problem like you told

the pax patch is : 11.00 - PHCO_20416
10.20 - PHCO_20338

[Patrick Wallek]

I would omit the '-C' option. The '-C' creates a file that the check_recovery command can compare against at a later date to determine if you need to run another make_recovery. The '-C' can add LOTS of time to the make_recovery process.

[Cindy Wolford]

Thank you for the ideas but I'm still unable to create the make_recover tape.

I tried make_recover -A and it took over an hour and I gave up (I know my last recovery tape did not take nearly that long so I Ctrl-C to stop this attempt)

I tried make_recover -p -v -A and once again, I'm sitting at the same spot for almost 30 minutes now.

I appreciate the feedback thus far.....any other ideas?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Cindy:

If you have a very large vg00 then the '-A' option could take quite a while (45+ minutes is what I generally experience for about 3GB).

Otherwise, note that from the man pages for 'make_recovery':

"-p previews what processing would take place, without actually creating the tape. This is a way of verifying /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makrec.append, and getting /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch.include created."

"-r resumes creation of the System Recovery tape after the -p option has been used to create /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch.include, and it has been possibly edited. The -r option also resumes creation of the recovery tape after the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/config.recover file has been edited."

Does this help?

...JRF...