Warning during make_tape_recovery

[Vivek Shrivastava_1]

Hi,

During the ignite backup i recived the following WARNING.

WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)

I used the following command

make_tape_recovery -A -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -x inc_entire=vg00

attached file is the log of ignite.

Do i have to do another backup. is it a big problem? what is it? what should i do?

Please help.

thanks

[Michael Tully]

A backup completed with warnings is still a good backup in whcih you can recover. Suggest you have a look at the latest pax patches for your version.

[Vivek Shrivastava_1]

thanks,

Just one more question?

in which case i should use the option -l (l like leg)?

should i use following command

make_tape_recovery -A -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -l -x inc_entire=vg00

or

make_tape_recovery -A -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn -I -x inc_entire=vg00


please help.

thansk

[Michael Tully]

The -l option is not needed when writing to tape.

I use this combination, as it makes the tape interactive, so if you want to make changes while booting from the tape you can.

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

The -A option is not required, if all of your OS is in /dev/vg00

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Vivek,

Since it could not be able to backup the acl entries, it didn't exit with 0 hence it completed with warnings. As long as the warnings displayed in your log file are not critical, you can safely ignore them.

If there is a real problem, it will fail.

Your command looks good except -A. I use

make_tape_recovery -v -x inc_entire=vg00 -x exclude=/var/adm/crash -I -a /dev/rmt/0mn

-Sri

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

That warning is about the acl entries not backed up for the file.

Make sure you have loaded the latest pax patch for your ignite version.

When ignite creates the image it uses the pax utility.

download hte latest pax patch and load it up.

Your system image is built sucessfully!