Hi,

I have two Sun E450's running Solaris 8 with the 4.5 client. I have lots of 
other servers that I'm backing up every night without issues. The only 
difference between these two systems and the rest is that they are running 
Oracle and VCS. I have the backups generating the logs and this is what I see 
from the bpbkar log on the clients:

19:36:01.046 [21752] <2> ParseConfigExA: Unknown configuration option on line 
3: 
CLIENT =   hgsun19nb
19:36:01.047 [21752] <2> logparams: bpbkar -r 1120052 -ru root -dt 1983022 -to 
0 
-clnt hgsun19nb -class Oracle_Backups -sched Oracle_Incr -st INCR -bpstart_to 
300 -bpend_to 300 -read_to 300 -stream_count 18 -stream_number 18 -tir 
-tir_plus 
-use_otm -b hgsun19nb_1042158956 -kl 28 -Z
19:36:01.061 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Setting network send buffer size to 
32032 
bytes
19:36:01.066 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv KEYWORD=NONE
19:36:01.066 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_PID=21752
19:36:01.066 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_NUMBER=18
19:36:01.066 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_COUNT=18
19:36:01.066 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAMS=0
19:36:01.067 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BPSTART_TIMEOUT=300
19:36:01.067 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BPEND_TIMEOUT=300
19:36:01.067 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BACKUPID=hgsun19nb_1042158956
19:36:01.067 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv UNIXBACKUPTIME=1042158956
19:36:01.067 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BACKUPTIME=Thu Jan  9 19:35:56 
2003

19:36:01.068 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Inform when done
19:36:01.068 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Echo keepalives
19:36:01.069 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - BACKUP START
19:36:01.069 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Estimate:-1 -1
19:36:01.070 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Throttle duration required = 512 usec.
19:36:01.071 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Processing /xfn
19:36:01.111 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - Client completed sending data for backup

19:36:01.114 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - bpbkar exit normal
19:36:01.114 [21752] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 0: the requested operation 
was successfully completed
19:36:02.027 [21752] <16> bpbkar: ERR - read server exit status = 11: system 
call failed

We are not using the oracle agent because we only need to backup the hot backup 
tables and the redo logs. We did not have any issues until we transitioned to 
4.5. The two clients have plenty of memory and I don't see any errors about 
shared memory.

Any ideas what the problem could be? The log seems to indicate that the backup 
was successfull, but the error seems to be from reading the server's exit 
status.

-Octave

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*     Octave J. Orgeron      *   Specializing in :   *
* Unix Systems Administrator *  Solaris/Tru64/Linux  *
*     The Hibbert Group      *   Certified Solaris   *
* oorgeron AT hibbertgroup DOT com  * Systems Administrator *
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