Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

I have a nim sever called nim_master and bunch of clients called n0,n1,n2,n3 and n4, when I tried to perform mksysb from nim_master, everyone was ok but n1, and the error message is:

Creating list of files to back up
Backing up 53990 files..............
0512-005 savevg: Backup Completed.
The backup command completed with errors.
The messages displayed on Standard Error contained additional
information.
backup medium write error: File too large
Check backup media and rerun the backup
0042-001 nim: processing error encountered on "master":
0042-001 m_mkbosi: processing error encountered on "n1_nb":
0042-001 m_mkbosi: processing error encountered on "master":
0042-154 c_stat: the file or directory "/mksysb/edw/n1/n1_20080731" does not exist

It's really weird because n1 has the same configurations as other n node clients.

Any clue please? Thanks.
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Originally posted by: CRM

What are the ulimits on the system you are running the backup from?

backup medium write error: File too large

Might be that you have a different ulimit.

set the file size to unlimited, reboot and try again.

regards

Chris
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

Are you trying to write a 2GB+ file to a JFS filesystem without bigfile being set to yes?
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Originally posted by: nh4aix

The other "posters" are on the right path. I have seen this error before and (if I remember correctly), it is because the files system on the NIM server, is not set for files greater than 2GB. This is not a NIM configuration issue.

Good Luck.
Joe
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,
You should check on the client, the file size limit (ulimit). As the mksysb is being written on mounted NFS on client.

Regards,
Angel
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thank everyone, it turned out to be the para fsize of root in /etc/security/limits on n1 was limited, so problem's resolevd by setting fsize=-1, and thanks again.
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