On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 09:10 +0530, Girish N wrote: <snip> > The only thing that we were able to find is that one of the database > file [out of 15 files] is in inconsistent state, does this mean that - a > tar -czvf backup will fail if one of the file during backup is > inconsistent [or corrupted?] Not with the symptoms you have. > This is happening on one of our Redhat AS 3.0 server [we hv 10 Redhat > dev servers & none of them r hvn'ng this issue] > > the command used for backup is "# tar -czvf /SAN02/datatop.tgz /u02/datatop" Two possibilities: 1. Has the datafile grown to a size that is problematic? I don't know specifically about the versions of tar and gzip in AS 3, some are limited to 2gb file size. 2. I wouldn't think this is very likely since it is only happening to one datafile, but could it possibly be a memory problem? -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
