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Operating Systems AIX Tar - pre-checking before making the Tar file Post 302975386 by filosophizer on Saturday 11th of June 2016 07:54:54 PM
Old 06-11-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Where's your backup file gone with the second version?

The first trial with tee fails because the files' names are listed to stderr, which doesn't make it into tee, and which you redirect in version 2. Still, you don't have the files on screen AND in testoutput as desired.

With the second version, I will not see any output on the screen , it will be redirected to the file.
Code:
root@clodb:/clodbvg>ls -ltra
total 16417272
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     system          256 May 22 00:46 lost+found

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     12976636 Jun 12 00:28 testoutput.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system   5885143569 Jun 12 00:28 bkp_21MAY16_oratech.tgz

root@clodb:/clodbvg>tail -n3 testoutput.txt | more
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/oratech/
/oratech/.TTauthority
/oratech/.Xauthority
/oratech/.dt/
/oratech/.dt/Desktop/
/oratech/.dt/Trash/
/oratech/.dt/Trash/.trashinfo
/oratech/.dt/appmanager/
/oratech/.dt/errorlog
/oratech/.dt/help/
/oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/
/oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser.hv
/oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser00.ht
/oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser01.ht

root@clodb:/clodbvg>tail -n3 testoutput.txt
/oratech/smit.script
/oratech/smit.transaction
/oratech/test1

now trying with your version

Code:
root@clodb:/clodbvg>bash
root@clodb:/clodbvg>tar cvf - /oratech 2> >(tee ZZ /dev/tty) | gzip > testversion.tgz
a /oratech
a /oratech/.TTauthority 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.Xauthority 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt
a /oratech/.dt/Desktop
a /oratech/.dt/Trash
a /oratech/.dt/Trash/.trashinfo 0 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/appmanager
a /oratech/.dt/errorlog 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/help
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser.hv 2 blocks.



root@clodb:/clodbvg>cat ZZ
a /oratech
a /oratech/.TTauthority 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.Xauthority 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt
a /oratech/.dt/Desktop
a /oratech/.dt/Trash
a /oratech/.dt/Trash/.trashinfo 0 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/appmanager
a /oratech/.dt/errorlog 1 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/help
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser.hv 2 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser00.ht 3 blocks.
a /oratech/.dt/help/oraprod-oradb-0/browser01.ht 0 blocks.

Now trying the files which had error

Code:
root@clodb:/clodbvg>tar cvf - /oradata/proddata/applsys*.* 2> >(tee errorfiles.txt /dev/tty) | gzip > errorfiles.tgz
a /oradata/proddata/applsysd01.dbf 6963216 blocks.
a /oradata/proddata/applsysd02.dbf 14680080 blocks.
/oradata/proddata/applsysd02.dbf: There is an input or output error.
tar: 0511-182 Read error on a /oradata/proddata/applsysd03.dbf 13107216 blocks.
a /oradata/proddata/applsysd04.dbf 4505616 blocks.
a /oradata/proddata/applsysd05.dbf 4505616 blocks.
a /oradata/proddata/applsysx01.dbf 4915216 blocks.
a /oradata/proddata/applsysx02.dbf 7987216 blocks.

The error is only on applsysd02.dbf and not applsysd03.dbf

Code:
root@clodb:/clodbvg>/opt/freeware/bin/tar cvf -  /oradata | gzip > /clodbvg/bkp_30MAY16.tgz 

/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/oradata/
/oradata/JAVA/
/oradata/JAVA/.toc
/oradata/JAVA/Java131.rte
/oradata/JAVA/Java131.rte.tar
/oradata/Stage11i/
/oradata/lost+found/
/oradata/proddata/
/oradata/proddata/XDOD.dbf
/oradata/proddata/XDOX.dbf
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: /oradata/proddata/applsysd02.dbf: Read error at byte 4767080960, reading 10240 bytes: There is an input or output error.
/oradata/proddata/applsysd03.dbf
/oradata/proddata/applsysd04.dbf
/oradata/proddata/applsysd05.dbf
/oradata/proddata/applsysx01.dbf
/oradata/proddata/applsysx02.dbf

Thanks Rudic.
Last edited by filosophizer; 06-12-2016 at 08:03 AM.. Reason: posted the results of file which had problem when doing tar
 

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