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make_recovery_tape failed

 
Richard Pugh_3
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make_recovery_tape failed

I am running the following make_tape_recovery command (make_recovery_tape -vA -a /dev/rmt/26mn -I -B /tmp/maketape -x inc_entire=vg00
) and am receiving the error message below, any help would be appreciated.

WARNING: There was a problem with the list of files/directories to archive.
Input: /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2005-06-13,WARNING: There was a problem with the list o
f files/directories to archive.
Input: /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2005-06-13,16:19/flist
The following line(s) had too few/incorrect entries in each of them.
Problem lines:
line: 14 home/edtsa/ 100744 928524368 3 8
16:19/flist
The following line(s) had too few/incorrect entries in each of them.
Problem lines:
line: 14 home/edtsa/ 100744 928524368 3 8
ERROR: The make_sys_image command failed. The system recovery archive will
not be created.
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Mel Burslan
Honored Contributor

Re: make_recovery_tape failed

it looks like between the time the make_tape_recovery process takes the inventory of files to be backed up to tape and the time it actually writes these to the tape, someone/some thing is deleting files from home/edtsa directory. This is a gut feeling not that I have seen before.

I think you can alleviate this situation by using

-x exclude=/home/edtsa

right after

-x inc_entire=vg00

directive.

Hope this helps.
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Sarjerao
Frequent Advisor

Re: make_recovery_tape failed

If you can take down time for system, better to take ignite in single user mode. Because any application running may be adding, deleting files in fs of vg00.
check /home/edtsa is in /home fs or any other fs mount point.
Ermin Borovac
Honored Contributor

Re: make_recovery_tape failed

Check /home/edtsa directory for any files with space and/or control characters in their names ('ls -b' may be useful to find files with control characters).

14 home/edtsa/ 100744 928524368 3 8

The line above, from flist file, lists entry for a file in /home/edtsa directory with pathname length being equal to 14 characters (1st column). "home/edtsa/" has only 11 characters.
Eknath
Trusted Contributor

Re: make_recovery_tape failed

Hi Richard,
looking at log it seems like someone(edtsa) has dumped files from windows machine(may be with the help of some ftp utilities). There is a space in file name or the characters that are not supported by unix in file name. Check these files in home/edtsa and rename them and run the command again.

Cheers !!!
eknath