make_tape_recovery backup issue

[M.sureshkumar]

Hi All,

When i tried to take the make_tape_recovery on my hp unix server, i am getting the below error.
Error:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
make_medialif: error - gzip failure on scripts, probable insufficient disk space in /var/tmp
ERROR: System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF
file.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape .
File: /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2007-10-09,08:13/archive_cfg is not
world-readable, this may cause clients to fail to read it during an
installation.


Note:
Yesterday i have upgraded the Gzip version from 1.2.4 to 1.3.12.Before make_tape_recovery was working fine.Any problem in gzip 1.3.12 version for mak_tape_recovery backup.

Pls guide me.

Thanks&Regards,
Suresh.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Suresh,

Whenever you find a problem like this its always good to check as you did the last thing you changed. Unless you overwrote the standard version of gzip that ships with the systems, ignite probably did not use gnu gzip. But its worth backing out the change and checking.

The error message itself indicates that there is insufficient space on /var to make the archive. Please check that as well.

SEP

[Aneesh Mohan]

Hi Suresh,

Please do extend /var/tmp and try .


Thanks,
Aneesh

[M.sureshkumar]

Hi

Our /var file system is 50% (out of 4 GB)


Regards,
Suresh

[Prasanth V Aravind]

HI suresh,


I had found following line in /opt/ignite//binia/make_ipf_tape.

------------
cd /
tar -cfb - 20 $script_files_list |gzip -f -9 -c > $scripts_tmp || fatal "gzip failure on scripts, probable insufficient disk space in $tmp_di
r"

-----------

It seems that make_tape_recovery command use tar=gzip . so it may be the problem of gzip. can you check , your gzip is working or not ?

Regards
Prasanth

[Prasanth V Aravind]

Suresh,

try to check gzip is working or not with these options

eg:-
ll * | gzip -f -9 -c > /tmp/new.gz

confirm , what the content of /tmp/new.gz file


Regards
Prasanth

[M.sureshkumar]

Hi

Pls find the content of /tmp/new.gz file.
more /tmp/new.gz |more
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 2940 Jul 30 2006 AAAa04768
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 89 Jul 30 2006 AAAa04771
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Sep 15 2005 AAAa29458
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 22369 Nov 3 2006 BEQ10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 22369 Nov 3 2006 BEQ11258
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3675 Jul 30 2006 DAAa04768
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 DCE10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 DCE11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 DEC10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 DEC11258
-rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle dba 0 Apr 28 15:32 EM_TARGET_INSTALLER.lk
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 ISPX10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 ISPX11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 ITCP10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 ITCP11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 LU6210859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 LU6211258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 NMP10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 NMP11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 RAW10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 RAW11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 SPX10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 SPX11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 36929 Nov 3 2006 TCP10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 36929 Nov 3 2006 TCP11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 28884 Nov 3 2006 TCPS10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 28884 Nov 3 2006 TCPS11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 17196 Nov 3 2006 US10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 17196 Nov 3 2006 US11258
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 VI10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 0 Nov 3 2006 VI11258
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 6373562 Aug 26 2006 arch.include.1
-rw------- 1 root root 99415 Jul 20 2006 dead.letter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Sep 19 2005 dm_FCMS_adapter.fmt
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 28 Dec 11 2006 envd.action2
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 28 Dec 11 2006 envd.action5
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 2477006 Aug 26 2006 exclude.temp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 4 2006 kbaa02298
-rw-r----- 1 altair altair 27895 Feb 9 2007 license.dat
-rw-r----- 1 lms users 0 Oct 9 07:33 lockLMS_INTL
-rw-r--r-- 1 msc msc 0 Oct 9 08:04 lockMSC
-rw-rw-rw- 1 altair altair 0 Oct 9 09:27 lockaltair_lm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ansys ansys 0 Oct 9 09:40 lockansyslmd
-rw------- 1 root sys 12 Nov 30 2005 mailxAAAa13220
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 2751447 Nov 3 2006 net10859
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 2749424 Nov 3 2006 net11258
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x021000 Apr 6 2006 rdskBAMa02248
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x020000 Jul 20 2006 rdskYOAa02217
-rw------- 1 root root 310 Jun 16 2005 sh157.1
-rw------- 1 root root 343 Jun 16 2005 sh157.2
-rw------- 1 root root 166 Jun 16 2005 sh157.3
-rw------- 1 root root 440 Jun 16 2005 sh157.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 18456 Oct 9 11:41 swagent.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Jul 30 2006 swspluninfo.error
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 797 Oct 8 15:53 vol.tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 21412 Jun 16 2005 xml_index_file.data

BAAa04768:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 17 root sys 8192 Jul 30 2006 catalog

CAAa29458:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 96 Sep 15 2005 catalog

hsperfdata_oracle:
total 0

hsperfdata_root:
total 0

ign_configure:
total 16
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 51 Oct 9 08:01 make_sys_image.log

swmodtmp:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jan 26 2005 OS-Core


Regards,
Suresh.