ITEM: FP6846L

/usr/sbin/mkboottape.sh[377]: /tmp/mkinsttape_sb: not found

Question:

Env:
  AIX 4.2.1
  RISC 590
  sysback 4.2.0  

Problem:
  I created a full system backup to a seq. virtual device using
  this command:
  
  mkvginfo -Sf -v -o /usr/config/vginfo rootvg sbvg
  sysback -g /usr/config/vginfo -vf vdev2 sbvg

I got back this output

Changing tape block size to 512 ..
Placing boot image on tape ..
bosboot: Boot image is 8237 512 byte blocks.
Placing install image on tape ..
/usr/sbin/mkboottape.sh[377]: /tmp/mkinsttape_sb:  not found
Error creating install images. Check for available space in /etc.
 Unable to create bootable tape

I will use the debug option and put the output in 
/home/sysback/debug.out

Turns out to be the use of the -v option.  I will need to look 
into this further, since it is late


APPENDED by lmiller@systape2 on 04/25/98 07:53:

I looked at the /usr/sbin/mkboottape.sh script and determined 
this:

if [ -z "$VERBOSE" -a "$BOOT" != n ]
   then \# Remove verbose option from backup command
        cp $instprog /tmp/$$tmp || cancel 1
        sed "s/backup \\-irpv/backup \\-irp/" /tmp/$$tmp > $instprog_sb || cancel
1        rm /tmp/$$tmp
        chmod +x $instprog_sb
fi

--------------------------------------------------------------
If you use the -v flag it will never create a 
/tmp/mkinsttape_sb file.  So by changing the above code to 
this it will correct the problem
--------------------------------------------------------------

if [ -z "$VERBOSE" -a "$BOOT" != n ]
   then \# Remove verbose option from backup command
        cp $instprog /tmp/$$tmp || cancel 1
        sed "s/backup \\-irpv/backup \\-irp/" /tmp/$$tmp > $instprog_sb || cancel
1        rm /tmp/$$tmp
        chmod +x $instprog_sb
else                       \#ADD THIS LINE
cp $instprog $instprog_sb  \#ADD THIS LINE
chmod +x instprog_sb       \#ADD THIS LINE
fi

CLOSED by tj on 04/28/98 01:17:
Your fix will work correctly, however, there is no need to 
create a temporary instprog file if it's not a boot tape. So 
I did it a little differently by simply setting the instprog_sb
 variable to $instprog if the verbose option is not set. This 
is fixed in 4.2.0.0.



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Dated: April 1998 Category: N/A

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