Re: ontape & archecker

Guillermo G'mez Valc'rcel wrote: > Hi > > Platform: IDS 9.21 UC5 - Solaris 8 > > Does anybody know why when a level 0 backup fails, archecker report that > it's OK? > Tonight my level 0 backup failed: > > Please mount tape 1 on gestion:/dev/rmt/2u and press Return to continue ... > 10 percent done. > 20 percent done. > 30 percent done. > 40 percent done. > 50 percent done. > > Remote tape report: > > dd: unexpected short write, wrote 0 bytes, expected 65536 > 0+13366344 records in > 758581+0 records out > > Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 32 > > Program over. > > But my "archecker -tdsv" say that is all ok. > > Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC5 > Program Name: archecker > Version: 4.7 > Released: 03/24/01 22:03 > Compiled: 03/24/01 22:07 on SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-23 > > AC_STORAGE /informix/archecker > AC_MSGPATH /var/tmp/ac_msg.log > AC_VERBOSE on > AC_TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/2u > AC_TAPEBLOCK 64 > Please put in tape number 1. > Type 1 <return> or 0 to end: > ........................................ > 47 lines more > ................Please put in tape number 2. > Type 2 <return> or 0 to end: > Scan PASSED. > Control page checks PASSED > Reserve page validation PASSED. > Table checks PASSED.ud_free > BLOBChunk checks PASSED. > Tables/Fragments validated: 683 > > I don't know what kind of validations archecker utility is doing. > Does it check that every database page is in the archive? > Is there somewhere documentation about this? > > Thanks in advance > Guillermo G'mez Valc'rcel > GRAFIA S.A. > > Did you put in tape number 2? Archecker only checked what it read (i.e. the dbspaces that it backed up, backed up okay). 9.21.UC5 is out of support - went out of support ages ago.