Originally posted by: MikeScheerer

Hi all,

I am having a slightly brain dead moment with a problem I have seen before but the cause escapes me...

When running a savevg command on an AIX 6.1 lpar despite the actual volume group have several thousand files within its associated LV's the savevg backs up successfully, but it only backs up 6 files, namely the vgdata files and NOTHING else, what am I missing here...?

Here is the output from the savevg command I am using:

1. /usr/bin/savevg -i -e -v -X -f /export/backup/oradbvg.20120502_114145 oradbvg

Creating information file for volume group oradbvg.

Creating list of files to back up.

Backing up 6 files
Backing up to /export/backup/oradbvg.20120502_114145.
Cluster 51200 bytes (100 blocks).
Volume 1 on /export/backup/oradbvg.20120502_114145
a 12 ./tmp/vgdata/oradbvg/image.info
a 132 ./tmp/vgdata/vgdata.files5178612
a 132 ./tmp/vgdata/vgdata.files
a 3574 ./tmp/vgdata/oradbvg/filesystems
a 3775 ./tmp/vgdata/oradbvg/oradbvg.data
a 494 ./tmp/vgdata/oradbvg/backup.data
The total size is 8119 bytes.
Backup finished on Wed 2 May 11:41:53 2012; there are 100 blocks on 1 volumes.

0512-038 savevg: Backup Completed Successfully.

I have tried this on a number of the volume groups and they all do the same...

BTW: I have checked the relevant /etc/exclude.VG Name files and there is nothing in there that could cause this!

I am backing up to an NFS mounted filesystem /export/backup and this savevg command is part of a script which does a mksysb first and that works fine backing up approx 61000 files.

Somebody please beat me with a stick and tell me what I am missing here?

Many thanks,

Mike Scheerer
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

Did you try running the command manually and not running the script?
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Originally posted by: MikeScheerer

Yes I have tried running the command manually and also with a variety of different flags, but it only ever backs up 6 files except if I use the -m flag then it backs up 11 files...
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Originally posted by: orphy

Is oradbvg varied on with all its filesystems mounted? Remember that if FSs are not mounted, they won't be backed up. Take a look at /tmp/vgdata/oradbvg/oradbvg.data to see you have everything in there as expected.
Orphy
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Originally posted by: MikeScheerer

Problem has been resolved...

Issue was due to the volume group in question containing a number of Vision Solutions Recover Now protected filesystems.
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