Newbie fbackup question

[Chuck Ciesinski]

To All,

In our nightly incremental backup, we constantly get a message about being unable to stat files in /opt/hpservices/mqueue and also in /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client####. The number of stat messages equals the the number of files not backed up.

From the backup logfile.. where x_backup is the system name.

{ fbackup -1 -y -u -g /usr/local/backup/x_backup_graph_file -I /usr/loca
l/backup/backup_index.incr -c /usr/local/backup/x_backup_config_file -d /v
ar/adm/fbackupfiles/dates -f /dev/rmt/0m } 2>&1

Incremental Backup completed with WARNINGS on Sat Apr 9 22:47:39 CDT 2005
Exit code = 4

Additionally we have a small number of oracle .ctl files which are not being backed up and some showing as active when the system cron starts.

My question is three fold, first do I have the appropriate level specified to get the /mqueue files and /var/spool/... files backed up and second, does it really matter and lastly, if it does matter, how can I correct this. The same files show up every night as not being backed up.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

The message "cannot stat" means the files existed when the backup started, but didn't when the backup went to back them up.

No biggie, those are transient files and are not necesary.

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[Peter Godron]

Chuck,
fbackup creates a list of files to back up and the starts the actual backup process.
When it reaches the directories in question it finds a mismatch between expected and actual files.

If you really insist on gettting rid of the messages, prefix the the files in your graph files with an -e to exclude them from the backup.

Regards

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,
Apart from these messages which are coming dur to file not available when tried to backup, one more thing that matters here is that when you backup active files,these are skipped, as there is no point in taking a active file which is continuously updated, Like your control file, because the backup of these files will not be consistent. So the best way to backup control files is to back it after shutting your database(which actually stop its updation)

HTH,
Devender