Mksysb Failing

[KPKIND]

Hi,

When I am trying to take system image backup on to the internal tape drive it keeps failing. I have tried to use a brand new tape to eliminate the problem being the media, but still I am unable to complete the backup.

2 of my logical volumes in the rootvg have few stale partitions, I am suspecting this could be one of the reason for this failure. Can someone let me know if there is anything I have to look for to fix this problem.

Command: failed stdout: yes stderr: no

Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below.


Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg....

Creating tape boot image.......

Creating list of files to back up..
Backing up 51664 files...../usr/bin/mksysb[882]: 139536 Bus error(coredump)

0512-005 mksysb: Backup Completed.
The backup command completed with errors.
The messages displayed on Standard Error contained additional
information.



TIA
Kumar

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

you can check if the lv's are causing the trouble by adding the mount points to a file called exclude.rootvg (located in /etc/.If it doesn't exist already, you must create it )
Then launch mksysb with the -e parameter, this will make an mksysb and exclude the folders listed in exclude.rootvg.
If the problem persists , you have a scsi bus problem ( or a malfunctioning tapedrive)

regards,

R.

 

[kHz]

Bus error... try running diag and check the errpt for planar or other errors.