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Operating Systems AIX VIOS backup to DVD Post 302410335 by slow68 on Monday 5th of April 2010 03:44:27 PM
Old 04-05-2010
filosophizer - tried the "smitty mkdvd" command. The results were the same "burn_cd was successful" yet nothing is written to the DVD. It was a bit more verbose yet was not giving an error.

lo-lp-kl - Thanks for the link, I was in there before I posted here. I try and do my homework before asking for help - sometimes I do miss things though.

So far I have tested using DVD -R, DVD +R and DVD -RAM with the same results. So for grins I thought I might test without any media just to see if I could get an error message:

Code:
$ backupios -cd /dev/cd0 -cdformat -nosvg
Backup in progress.  This command can take a considerable amount of time
to complete, please be patient...

Initializing mkcd log: /var/adm/ras/mkcd.log...
Verifying command parameters...
0512-332 mkcd: Device /dev/cd0 does not appear to be ready.  For
information about possible causes, see  /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/mkcd.README.txt
  Continuing...
Creating image.data file...

0512-329 mkcd: User specified CD or DVD file system: /mkcd/cd_fs
needs an additional 4589964982 bytes.
Cleaning up...
$ $ backupios -cd /dev/cd0 -cdformat -nosvg
Backup in progress.  This command can take a considerable amount of time
to complete, please be patient...

Initializing mkcd log: /var/adm/ras/mkcd.log...
Verifying command parameters...
0512-332 mkcd: Device /dev/cd0 does not appear to be ready.  For
information about possible causes, see  /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/mkcd.README.txt
  Continuing...
Creating image.data file...

0512-329 mkcd: User specified CD or DVD file system: /mkcd/cd_fs
needs an additional 4589964982 bytes.
Cleaning up...
$

So it does seem to realize that the drive contains media.

Last edited by Scott; 04-23-2010 at 02:07 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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ds.log(4)							   File Formats 							 ds.log(4)

NAME
ds.log - Availability Suite data services log file DESCRIPTION
The /var/adm/ds.log file contains the Availability Suite data services command log. The administration commands log activities to the file in the format: date time product: message Note that when the size of the log file exceeds 10 Mbytes, ds.log is renamed /var/adm/ds.log.bak and a new /var/adm/ds.log file is cre- ated. The ds.log fields are: date The date format is mmm nn, where mmm is the local three-character abbreviation for the month and nn is the day of the month on which the event occurred. time The time of the event, in hh:mm:ss format. product A product code that identifies which component of the data services produced the event. The code is separated from the message that follows by a colon (:) and a space. message A message that can extend over more than one line describing the event that occurred. The second or following lines are not pre- fixed by the date, time, and product code strings. EXAMPLES
The example below shows sample ds.log file content: Jan 25 05:26:17 ii: iiboot suspend cluster tag <none> Jan 25 05:32:02 ii: iiboot resume cluster tag <none> Jan 25 05:32:04 sv: svboot: resume /dev/vx/rdsk/bigmaster Jan 25 05:32:04 sv: svboot: resume /dev/vx/rdsk/bigshadow Jan 25 05:32:04 sv: svboot: resume /dev/vx/rdsk/mstvxfs Jan 25 05:32:04 sv: svboot: resume /dev/vx/rdsk/master01 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ |Architecture | x86 | +---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ |Availability | SUNWscmu | +---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ |Interface Stability | Committed | +---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
iiadm(1M), sndradm(1M), svadm(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 08 Jun 2007 ds.log(4)
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