Only two replies this time... (Thanks to Tom Blinn, and Oisin McGuinness)
Both answered that, since the btcreate-utility is a shell script, we could
consider hacking the script. Tom Blinn thinks we stumbled onto some bugs.
There's good and bad news to this:
"The good news is that the people who maintain btcreate (our team down
in our UNX campus in New Jersey, USA) often follow this list, and one
of them may read your problem and respond.
The bad news is that unless you file a formal problem report, it is very
unlikely that the script will be repaired and a fixed version delivered
to you."
I guess we'll wait for the next, working version.
-----Original Message-----
Dear managers,
I have two questions about the btcreate-utility, which we try to use for
creating bootable tapes.
Is it a known restriction that the btcreate-utility only seems to support
the restore of one AdvFS-fileset per filedomain? Although dumping all
filesets while using btcreate succeeds, problems arise when we want to
restore using btextract. After the restore of, let's say
filedomainA#filesetA, the btextract-script tries to create filedomainA again
(because we also have filedomainA#filesetB on tape). Of course this can't be
done, so an error is returned:
=========================
"mkfdmn: domain '/etc/fdmns/filedomainA' already exists
mkfdmn: can't create new domain 'filedomainA'"
=========================
Instead of continuing with the creation of fileset B on the domain, the
btextract utility just exits. Not an acceptable situation.
Second question:
We want to run btcreate non-interactively. However, with all flags we still
get the following (log) message:
==========================
"BOOTABLE TAPE CREATION
SELECTING LOCATION FOR TEMPORARY FILES
The btcreate utility requires 70120 (512 blocks) of disk in the
/usr filesystem for the temporary files that are created during
the process of bootable tape creation.
If you have space constraints in the /usr file system then you
can use disk space in filesystems other than the one /usr/sys is
located on.
When this flag is used all necessary temporary space needed by
btcreate will be used in the specified directory.
Answer yes if you want btcreate to use the space available in /usr/sys.
Answer no if you want btcreate to use some other area for temp files.
Do you want temporary files to be created in /usr/sys ? (y/n) [y]:"
==========================
How can we prevent this message from appearing?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Greetings,
Dagmar Galama
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Dagmar Galama
Origin MS-DS OSS Unix System Management
Building VA-171A P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven
( Phone : (+3140-27)89610 FAX : (+3140-27)83962
( Home : (+3143)-3621307 GSM : (+3165)-4756804
* Email : Dagmar.Galama_at_nl.origin-it.com
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Greetings,
Dagmar Galama
___________________________________________
Dagmar Galama
Origin MS-DS OSS Unix System Management
Building VA-171A P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven
> * Phone : (+3140-27)89610 FAX : (+3140-27)83962
> * Home : (+3143)-3621307 GSM : (+3165)-4756804
> * Email : Dagmar.Galama_at_nl.origin-it.com
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Received on Tue May 02 2000 - 14:17:26 NZST