Re: trouble backing up with tar

[Silke Mueller]

On 09.08.2001 06:47:51 John R. Jackson wrote:

Can anybody tell me why ufsdump is being used instead of vxdump?

Amanda makes that decision based on what's in your /etc/vfstab file.
What does the disklist entry for this disk look like (i.e. are you telling
Amanda the mount point or a /dev entry?)?  What does the corresponding
/etc/vfstab entry say?

Yeah, I guessed that much and after adding an entry to /etc/vfstab the
backup was successful.
Obviously the real problem was that there was no /etc/vfstab entry for
the disk, because it's been mounted from Veritas Cluster.

Regards
  Silke

Re: trouble backing up with tar

[John R. Jackson]

Can anybody tell me why ufsdump is being used instead of vxdump?

Amanda makes that decision based on what's in your /etc/vfstab file.
What does the disklist entry for this disk look like (i.e. are you telling
Amanda the mount point or a /dev entry?)?  What does the corresponding
/etc/vfstab entry say?

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: trouble backing up with tar

[Silke Mueller]

For some strange reason that doesn't work. The backup always fails with:

sendsize: getting size via dump for /dev/vx/dsk/tmp_perforce/vol01 level 0
sendsize: running /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0sf 1048576 - /dev/vx/rdsk/tmp_perforce/vol01
running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp-2.4.1p1
  DUMP: Warning - super-block on device `/dev/vx/rdsk/tmp_perforce/vol01' is corrupt - 
run fsck
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Can anybody tell me why ufsdump is being used instead of vxdump?
I built the amanda client on the machine with the disk and configure found
vxdump and vxrestore.

Regards
 Silke



   
   
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use dump.  it runs dump on the 2.6 machine, then pipes the stuff through to
the amanda server.  I'm backing up aix boxes using aix's backup to a linux
amanda server.  the dump program is local to the client.

-Original Message-
From: Silke Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 5:48 AM
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Subject: trouble backing up with tar


Hi,

I want to back up a 40 GB disk with gnutar and a DLT 7000.
There are approximately 1.300.000 files on the disk and
the dump exits with the error message
driver: result time 8235.753 from dumper0: FAILED 01-2 [data timeout].
There are no other errors. Btw. the etimeout is 15000.

I don't use dump, because the disk is vxfs on a Solaris 2.6 machine
and my backup server is a Solaris7 machine without any vxfs.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks
 Silke