I had thought possibly sparse files as well but he said the dba was
missing data.  Verifying backup/recovery with native tools is a good
idea.  If it's at the file level tar, cpio, or ufsdump would be good
tests.  If it's raw you may be limited to dd.

~JK

Len Boyle wrote:
> 
> Hello Steve
> 
> You said that this was a home brew data base system.
> 
> Can you tell us a little more.
> Which O/S are you using? Hardware? and Filesystem?  A raw filesystem?
> 
> Can you back this up with another backup program and restore it correctly? 
> For example tar, ntbackup.
> Can you copy the files to another filesystem and then to your restore 
> location?
> 
> A wild guess is this might be a sparse file problem.
> 
> len
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Steve Curry [mailto:scurry AT yahoo-inc DOT com]
>         Sent: Tue 9/24/2002 6:04 PM
>         To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>         Cc:
>         Subject: [Veritas-bu] database backup
> 
> 
> 
>         Hello list!
> 
>         I'm backing up a binary database.  The database is 14gigs in size and 
> is
>         offline during the backup.  The backup reports a status of 0 and I see
>         no errors in the logs.  However when I restore the database (which 
> also
>         reports success) the database is only 1.3 gigs in size.  So, somewhere
>         out there in the land of 1's and 0's I've lost 13 gigs... or so it
>         seems.  Has anyone experienced this?  The DBA says that the database 
> is
>         missing data as one would assume.  I've opened a case with veritas and
>         sent them the logs and they also confirm that as far as they can tell,
>         nothing is going wrong with the backup or restore.  Short of Jenny 
> Craig
>         for databases... what in the world could be going on?
> 
>         Suggestions please...
> 
>         Steve Curry
> 
> 
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