Originally posted by: legatie

Hello,

I am trying to take a mksysb of my AIX server to a file running on 5.3. It keeps failing saying that it does not have enough space.

Command: failed stdout: yes stderr: no

Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below.
Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.

Creating list of files to back up.
Backing up 82996 files..............................
1990 of 82996 files (2%)..............................
14956 of 82996 files (18%)....................backup: 0511-432 A write error occurred: There is not enough space in the file system.
backup: 0511-079 The backup media may be damaged.
Use a different disk to run the backup.

0512-005 mksysb: Backup Completed.
The backup command completed with errors.
The messages displayed on Standard Error contained additional
information.

Here are the filesystems:

1. df -g

Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 0.25 0.11 57% 6252 20% /
/dev/hd2 4.00 0.97 76% 43769 16% /usr
/dev/hd9var 1.00 0.12 88% 4690 14% /var
/dev/hd3 16.00 7.48 54% 765 1% /tmp
/dev/hd1 0.75 0.20 74% 116 1% /home
/proc - - - - - /proc
/dev/hd10opt 0.50 0.37 27% 3729 5% /opt
/dev/fslv00 12.00 1.53 88% 21194 6% /vol01
/dev/fslv01 3.00 0.57 81% 797 1% /usr/sys/inst.images
/dev/fslv03 40.00 13.79 66% 24 1% /mksysb
/dev/lv01 3.25 0.11 97% 18 1% /mkcd/cd_images

Please advise.

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: Siddhartha.Sinha

Did u tried with -X or using different temporary directory with -t /temp_dir_name. Check man pages of mksysb.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

the answer to your question (which filesystem was filled, at least temporarily) is in the aix errorlog:

errpt -a

very basic aix stuff, neat huh?
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Originally posted by: tech100

you have quite big filesystems - if all are in rootvg that you can have a problem to backup it.
i would first try to exclude from mksysb backup two of them: /tmp and /mksysb (option -e)

/dev/hd3 16.00 7.48 54% 765 1% /tmp
/dev/fslv00 12.00 1.53 88% 21194 6% /vol01
/dev/fslv01 3.00 0.57 81% 797 1% /usr/sys/inst.images
/dev/fslv03 40.00 13.79 66% 24 1% /mksysb
/dev/lv01 3.25 0.11 97% 18 1% /mkcd/cd_images
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