Hello,
I am trying to get GNU Tar to do incremental backups and am running into a hard
error. I've been using GNU Tar on my HP-UX systems for quite a while but I've
only been doing full backups but they are taking too long (6 hrs) and
incremental would be much better and faster.
The full tar backup runs fine and creates the snapshot file, but when I go to
run the incremental I get this error.
Unexpected field value in the snapshot file
Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I got the tar-snapshot-edit utility and it calls out this file system.
Director: /cghbck
Dev value too high: "18446744071562076161" > 4294967295
>From some old posts it appears this may be due to LVM issues so I ran a test
>and for HP-UX LVM version 1 type volume group the incremental works as
>advertised. But when I create a HP-UX LVM 2.2 version volume group I get the
>above error.
Obviously I'd like to be able to do Tar incrementals on my HP-UX LVM 2.2
version volume groups.
So my questions are:
Is there a fix hopefully in the works to support incrementals on HP-UX LVM 2.2
version volume groups?
Or is there workaround (other than changing the HP-UX LVM version 1 type volume
group?
A HP-UX GNU tar list?
Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide.
If I am on the wrong list I apologize and request pointers to better suited
lists.
Environment Information:
# machinfo
CPU info:
1 Intel(R) Itanium 2 9100 series processor (1.67 GHz, 18 MB)
666 MT/s bus, CPU version A1
2 logical processors (2 per socket)
Memory: 49120 MB (47.97 GB)
Firmware info:
Firmware revision: 04.03
FP SWA driver revision: 1.18
IPMI is supported on this system.
BMC firmware revision: 5.23
Platform info:
Model: "ia64 hp server rx3600"
OS info:
Release: HP-UX B.11.31
Machine: ia64
vmunix _release_version:
@(#) $Revision: vmunix: B.11.31_LR FLAVOR=perf
BaseLVM B.11.31.1010 Logical Volume Manager
Michael White | Systems Administrator - VMS/HPUX | Computer Information Systems
CGH Medical Center | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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