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[Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup

2008-01-04 13:12:40
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Getting a list of files from a failed backup
From: Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:54:29 -0700
Greetings,

I have a file system that has started to fail full backups on a regular 
basis.  The incremental backups run fine.  This file system is on a hpux 
11.11 server,  There is only 228 gig of used data, but it does have 
~5.5m inodes in use.  The backup fails with a status 41.  This server 
has other file systems on it with more used inodes and more used space, 
and they don't have this problem.  I've run the backup at various times 
when I know the  network and file system load is low, but it doesn't change.

The current backup environment is 5.1 mp2.  It was supposed to be 
retired by now which is why it hasn't been upgraded.

The reason I want to see what files it is backing up before it fails is 
that all of the backups seem to backup just over 195 gig before they 
fail.  The file counts vary quite a bit.  I'm expecting that I may have 
a very poorly laid out structure with hundreds of thousands of files in 
one directory that is causing this problem.  This may also be caused by 
some timeout if it does hit this, but I haven't been able to find it in 
any of the log files.

I was able to recovery an image from the tape listing by running 
bpmedialist -mcontents -m bk7159.  That returns image 
massey_1199305335.  I've tried doing the following bpflist command and 
get the no entity found

bpflist -backupid massey_1199305335 -d 01/02/2008 -e 01/03/2008 -client 
massey

I also tried running the bpflist this way and get no entity found 
again.  This format works when I give it a different client name and 
pattern, so I know I have the syntax correct.

bpflist -client massey -st FULL -d 01/02/2008 00:00:00 -rl 1 -pattern 
/mnt/wizard

I'm guessing some of this isn't working because the backup did not 
complete and there isn't a valid image for it.

Any help you can provide that will show me where the backup is failing 
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com

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