Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message news:<40e01458$0$208$cd19a363@news.wanadoo.nl>...
> yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > fbackup(1517): /net not backed up - 'n' option (NFS) not specified
> > fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used 0 time(s)
> > fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST
> > fbackup(3003): normal EOT
> > fbackup(3316): enter '^[yY]' when volume 2 is ready on
> > /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST,
> > or '^[nN]' to discontinue:
> > fbackup(3004): writer aborting
> > fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit
> > Not a terminal
> > stty: : Not a typewriter
> > Not a terminal
> > stty: : Not a typewriter
> >
> > my understanind is that the tape storage was full and the system watns
> > another tape and since this is coming from a cron entry then naturally
> > it fails.
> >
> > am i right?
>
> Yes
>
> > also, i wanted to rectify the issue by selecting the filesystems to be
> > backuped up, however, in my script, i only have
> >
> > "fbackup -f /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST -i /"
> >
> > how to achieve so? by replacing / with the list of filesystems to be
> > backed up?
>
> If you include "/", you also include all filesystems below "/". So if
> you only want to backup "/", but not the filesystems below it, then you
> have to specifically exclude those other filesystems. This is easiest
> with the "-g graphfile" option, where graphfile is a file which contains
> the includes and excludes, i.e.
>
> graphfile:
> ==========
> i /
> e /mnt1
> ...
> e /mntx
>
> See the fbackup(1M) manual page for details.




fbackup -f /dev/rmt/mydevice -g backupfile

my backupfile is as follows
i /
i /stand
i /var
i /usr
e /usr/sap/trans
e /usr/sap/put
e /usr/sap/sid
e /tmp_trans
e /tmp
i /sapmnt/sid
i /sap_interface
i /oracle/stage/817_64
i /oracle/stage/816_64
i /oracle/sid
i /oracle/sid/sapreorg
i /oracle/sid/sapdata6
i /oracle/sid/sapdata5
i /oracle/sid/sapdata4
i /oracle/sid/sapdata3
i /oracle/sid/sapdata2
i /oracle/sid/sapdata1
i /oracle/sid/saparch
i /oracle/sid/origlogB
i /oracle/sid/origlogA
i /oracle/sid/mirrlogB
i /oracle/sid/mirrlogA
i /oracle/805_64
i /opt
e /old_kernel
e /home

1) must the name of the -g filename be "graphfile"? cos here, i
changed to "backupfile"
2) also, how about the owner/ermission of this file?
3) i got the entries of "backupfile" from bdf command. any concerns?
4) any idea how to check whether the entries in "backupfile" space is
enough for the tape device?

thanks