net ignite issues

[JOHN TURNER_2]

Hello

im having some space issues with netignite, when we run net ignite we get the following errors message:

ERROR: Not enough space for archive.
/var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch_mnt on local needs 4714115 kbytes free.
There are 3243824 kbytes free.


we do have the following space free on the drive

nmhd01{root}=>/var - bdf .
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 5017600 1815295 3003986 38% /var

should this be enough space, and is there anything else we can do to fix this problem.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The BDF indicates there is less than the required amount of free space free, 3 GB when 4 are needed.

AS to why so much space is needed, I'd say the scope of the ignite backup is too large.

Generally good for use on vg00, you may want to exclude some large scratch or data related logical volume.

SEP

[JOHN TURNER_2]

thanks for that will try and cut down the size of the ignite and re-run

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

> nmhd01{root}=>/var - bdf .

bdf accepts any file or directory reference:

bdf /var
bdf /var/opt/ignite
bdf /dev/vg00/lvol*

and so on...

> needs 4714115 kbytes

That's 4.7 Gbytes

> /dev/vg00/lvol8 5017600 1815295 3003986 38% /var

Free space = 3003986 or 3.0 Gbytes. So the message is quite correct.

NOTE: You need space for a MINIMUM of two backups, in your case, about 10Gb (4.7 * 2) Don't try to increase /var. Instead, create a new lvol with 10 or 20 Gb of diskspace (does *not* have to be on vg00), run newfs on the new rlvol, rename the current /var/opt/ignite to /var/opt/ignite1, create a new directory called /var/opt/ignite and mount the new filesystem to the /var/opt/ignite mountpoint. Finally, copy everything from /var/opt/ignite1 directory to the new /var/opt/ignite mountpoint:

lvcreate -L 20000 vg01
(assuming lvol9 was created)
newfs /dev/vg01/rlvol9
mv /var/opt/ignite /var/opt/ignite1
mkdir /var/opt/ignite
mount /dev/vg01/lvol9 /var/opt/ignite
cd /var/opt/ignite1
find . | cpio -pudlmv /var/opt/ignite
bdf /var/opt/ignite*

Then run your make_net_recovery and all should be well. When Ignite is working OK, then remove the ignite1 directory and it's contents:

rm -r /var/opt/ignite1

BTW: bdfmegs will help decode those long numbers in regular bdf. See attachment.