Frecover not recovering file even though its on index

[TenaciousJohnny]

Hi,

I am trying to recover a file from a fbackup archive. The index I get with frecover -I index convirms that the file /mydirectory/myfile is present along with 7 other files in /mydirectory. The sizes listed next to each file look correct.

When I run the frecover -xvF -f /dev/rmt/1m -i /mydirectory/myfile command, it comes back with file not recovered.

If I recover the whole /mydirectory, it only recovers 3 of the 8 files on the index. The files it did recover are the three smallest so I thought maybe I was running out of space on the file system I was recovering to but I have checked definately amn't.

OS is HPUX 11i

Can anyone advise? Are these files lost?

TIA

Johnny

[TenaciousJohnny]

Hi,

Panic over. Realized that the file system I'm recovering to isn't set up for large files. I'm sure if I recover to the originating file system they will work.

Cheers,

Johnny

[TenaciousJohnny]

Emm, panic back on. Recovering to the original file system which does have large file support is still not working. ANy suggestions?

[Manix]

try with a graph file ..

To recover a list of particular FILEs using graph files which contain the list of file names to be recovered or skipped.:
# frecover -x -g /tmp/tape/dbf.txt -f /dev/rmt/0m

[Manix]

to recover a single file you may try.

# frecover -x -i /path/filename -f /dev/rmt/0m

This thread may be helpful i guess.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/frecover-error/m-p/3018791#M74789

[TenaciousJohnny]

Thanks for replying Manix. I'm clear on how to recover individual files or directories. In this case frecover is giving me a message telling me that the file in question has not been recovered. This is despite the fact that the file in question is listed in the index. Its not a case of me making a typo on the file name. I have tried recovering the directory containing the file I want, & some of the files listed in the index in that directory are recovered, however the file I want isn't. I was really hoping someone might have cocme across a scenario where files were listed in the index file but frecover was unable to recover them.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Johnny:

> When I run the frecover...it comes back with file not recovered.

The 'fbackup' utility constructs an index of files to-be-backed-up as part of its initial processing. This index file is then written to the output archive (usually a tape). This does *not* mean that a file that was present when the index was created will be present for subsequent backup.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>JRF: This does *not* mean that a file that was present when the index was created will be present for subsequent backup.

Hopefully there would be a message saying it was removed when you completed fbackup.

This typically happens for files in /tmp and /var/tmp. For other places, you should investigate when you see the messages.