tar backup failed

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi All,

like to know what caused error during tar backup for the oracle mount points,

Below are mount points need to be backuped.
===========================================
/dev/vg00/lvol9 10485760 4461486 5648425 44% /opt/app/oracle
/dev/vg00/lvol5 131072 15832 114424 12% /home
/dev/vg01/lvol13 6291456 4615344 1663064 74% /UAT2/oradata/flash
/dev/vg01/lvol11 4194304 21200 4140512 1% /UAT2/oradata/dba
/dev/vg01/lvol10 2097152 120232 1961488 6% /UAT2/oradata/db03
/dev/vg01/lvol9 2097152 355768 1727792 17% /UAT2/oradata/db02
/dev/vg01/lvol8 2097152 1087920 1001360 52% /UAT2/oradata/db01
/dev/vg01/lvol14 458752 5728 449496 1% /UAT2/oradata/archlog
/dev/vg01/lvol12 262144 29064 231296 11% /UAT2/oradata/admin
/dev/vg01/lvol6 6291456 925648 5323896 15% /DEV2/oradata/flash
/dev/vg01/lvol4 4194304 21200 4140512 1% /DEV2/oradata/dba
/dev/vg01/lvol3 2097152 319944 1763336 15% /DEV2/oradata/db03
/dev/vg01/lvol2 2097152 273856 1809064 13% /DEV2/oradata/db02
/dev/vg01/lvol1 2097152 1087920 1001360 52% /DEV2/oradata/db01
/dev/vg01/lvol7 458752 5728 449496 1% /DEV2/oradata/archlog
/dev/vg01/lvol5 262144 136616 124608 52% /DEV2/oradata/admin

tar /dev/rmt/1mn cvf /opt/app/oracle /UAT2/oradata /DEV2/oradata

error:-
a /DEV2/oradata/flash/patch/backup/DEV2_190908.tar.gz 455155 blocks
a /DEV2/oradata/flash/patch/backup/UAT2_190908.tar.gz 456643 blocks
tar: cannot stat 2. Not dumped.

# ioscan -fnC tape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=======================================================================
tape 1 0/0/0/0.2.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5683A
/dev/rmt/1m /dev/rmt/c0t2d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/1mb /dev/rmt/c0t2d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/1mn /dev/rmt/c0t2d0DDS

[SKR_1]

Your file size may be greater than 2 GB.

Thanks

SKR

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>tar: cannot stat 2. Not dumped.

Assuming this is accurate, this looks like you had a file called "2" but it was later removed?

$ tar -cvf foo.tar 2
tar: cannot stat 2. Not dumped.

[Mridul Shrivastava]

I agree with Dennis. Have a look on the following thread as well:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1171617

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1257613

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Thank you every one..