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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