more errors with fbackup

[Kay Liesenfeld]

Hi,

a few weeks ago we had a problem with an obvious broken LTO drive. HP has changed the drive and since then every backup was finished successfully.

There is only one more point: fbackup throws the following error one some files:

fbackup(3009): WARNING: File number 7810 (/data/ora/dat/ksdsd.dat)
was not successfully backed up

My first idea was that this file (or all the affected files) are not closed at the time of backup, but I think they are.

Does anybody know what this error mean and how to correct this?

Thanks!

Kay.

[Chris Wilshaw]

There would have been another error some time before that which would explain why the file wasn't backed up to tape, athough this does normally indicate that there was some process or other that had the file open.

To see the error messages that fbackup can produce,

cd /usr/lib/nls/C

dumpmsg fbackup.cat | more

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

The error means he file was NOT backed up becuase it was in use by some process(es) at the time. Whenever you do a backup you need to ensure all users are off the system and all applications closed down otherwise fbackup cannot backup all their files.

you can use the fuser command to see which processes are using these files and to kill them also before your backup.

[Kay Liesenfeld]

OK, got it!

Thank you two!

Kay.