problem creating network recovery archive

[Paul_481]

Good day,

I am creating a network recovery archive and its still running after two days. Its on the "Build the Archive" stage and I am wondering if something is wrong. I check the process on the client and there's still the " /sbin/pax -dwx ustar -f - " process.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Paul

[Ermin Borovac]

My guess is that pax is stuck trying to read a file that has been locked.

If you have lsof you can check what files pax has opened with

# lsof -p

Alternatively you can use glance/gpm to find the offending file.

If locked file is source of the problem then you can run make_net_recovery with '-x exclude' option to ignore the locked file.

See the following knowledge base article for more information.

Date: 9/27/04
Document description: Why does make_net_recovery hang while trying to write the archive?
Document id: lpv37729

[John P. Kole]

Is the size of the archive on the server growing at all (i.e. check the byte length
from time to time)?

[Paul_481]

Raise to HP support. Patch installation required