And in my own defence, I was backing up a "cold" Oracle system, i.e. we
had shut it down cleanly, as always.

Thanks for the Solaris bug pointer Marianne.
I hope that there is a fix and that it sorts things out.

Regards,
Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com] 
> Sent: 16 August 2005 14:20
> To: Piszcz, Justin; Ellwood, MW (Mike); veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpbackup - file "shrunk by nnnn 
> bytes, padding with zeroes"
> 
> 
> Right.  If you want to do hot backups you should use RMAN 
> (Netbackup type Oracle - requires NB Database Extensions) 
> rather than filesystem (Netbackup type Standard).
> 
> In my case however I was doing a cold backup of an OCFS 
> filesystem.  In fact the file size (from the OS standpoint) 
> had NOT changed but I've
> found other quirks with OCFS.   As an FYI Oracle and Netbackup only
> support RMAN backups of OCFS.   We were doing our backup prior to
> setting up RMAN and wanted something to fall back on in case 
> our restore
> testing in RMAN went horribly wrong.   RMAN has worked like a champ
> though.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:04 AM
> To: Jeff Lightner; Ellwood, MW (Mike); veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpbackup - file "shrunk by nnnn 
> bytes, padding with zeroes"
> 
> You should not be backing up live oracle databases.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Lightner
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:51 AM
> To: Ellwood, MW (Mike); veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bpbackup - file "shrunk by nnnn 
> bytes, padding with zeroes"
> 
> It means the file size changed after Netbackup selected it 
> for backup but before it actually backed it up.
> 
> I just ran into this using my Netbackup 5.1 a week or so ago.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Ellwood, MW (Mike)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:54 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bpbackup - file "shrunk by nnnn bytes, 
> padding with zeroes"
> 
> Anyone know what this means?
> 
> 22:10:13 ERR - File /ora/prod/oradata2/data/bud_tab_02.dbf 
> shrunk by 199754240 bytes, padding with zeros
> 
> This is with bpbackup for 3.4GA (old, I know ...).
> 
> Oddly enough we were running a parallel backup on another 
> server of the same data (we do this all the time and it works 
> fine),  which ran perfectly.
> 
> We've been having some tape issues (this is LTO-1 in a Sun-branded L20
> robot) on the server where we got the above message.
> There is no direct evidence to finger the tape system here, 
> as far as I can see (nothing in /var/adm/messages, etc).
> 
> This is on a Sun V880 platform running Solaris 5.8.
> 
> With thanks,
> 
> 
> Mike Ellwood
> 
> 
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