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  • 1.  Incomplete System Backup But No Errors

    Posted 01/25/12 11:34 AM

    Originally posted by: usaix


    Occasionaly, creating a system back using NIM completes informing that the operation may not have been able to be archive some files. However, no files are shown. I am wondering if I should consider the system backup reliable. The command is issued from the master (AIX 7.1) to a client (AIX 6.1):

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    System Backup Image Space Information
    (Sizes are displayed in 1024-byte blocks.)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    Required = 3745652 (3658 MB) Available = 90860040 (88731 MB)

    Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg..

    Creating list of files to back up
    .
    Backing up 88989 files..............................
    77460 of 88989 files backed up (87%)..

    0512-003 savevg may not have been able to archive some files.
    The messages displayed on the Standard Error contained additional
    information.

    Thanks in adavance.
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  • 2.  Re: Incomplete System Backup But No Errors

    Posted 01/31/12 04:05 PM

    Originally posted by: robint


    This may not be your issue and I may be stating something that is well known. But ....

    During the time between mksysb formulating the file list of files to archive and it actually writing the files to media/NIM, some transient files may have been removed.
    The message you are getting is displayed to let you know this has happened.

    For my servers, I notice this for files in /tmp mostly.

    Hope that helps.

    Rob
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  • 3.  Re: Incomplete System Backup But No Errors

    Posted 02/06/12 04:48 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Try to launch mksysb with -p option ;)

    -p Disables software packing of the files as they are backed up. Some tape drives use their own packing or compression algorithms.
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  • 4.  Re: Incomplete System Backup But No Errors

    Posted 02/09/12 04:32 AM

    Originally posted by: usaix


    Disabling software packing has no meaning if you are not using a tape drive.
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  • 5.  Re: Incomplete System Backup But No Errors

    Posted 02/10/12 12:29 PM

    Originally posted by: mmveiga


    Did you try the suggestion ? I had the same issue with mksysb backups not completing from a NIM master and only using "-p" fixed it, not only that but it did make a difference in the final size of the file, they are bigger now as expected so I just compress the mksysb images once they are done.

    Marcelo.
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