Hi,
Found a very strange behavior when using bpbackupdb command to backup the catalog.
The master server is on HP-UX running NB 5.1 with MP3. I use the following command and specified a rewind device path.
# bpbackupdb -tpath /dev/rmt/0m
The command went through and the activity monitor also shows that the catalog backup was sucessful. However, when I used bprecover command to list the tape, it prompted that the archive was not in NB format. This was the command that I used to list the tape:
# bprecover -l tpath /dev/rmt/0m
and
# bprecover -l tpath /dev/rmn/0mn
I did the backup again and try to list it using rewind or non-rewind device path and it still failed.
Next, I used the non-rewind dev path to perform the backup again and this time round I can list the tape successfully.
# bpbackupdb -tpath /dev/rmt/0mn
Anyone know why ? Why can't I use the rewind tape path to perform the catalog backup ? It is a bug ? The strange part was that it actually show that the backup was successful.
Thanks.
WP
