make_recovery_tape failed

[Richard Pugh_3]

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.

[Mel Burslan]

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.

[Sarjerao]

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]

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]

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