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Backupios Fails with 0512-008 savevg

Troubleshooting


Problem

Backupios command fails with 0512-008 savevg: The mkvgdata command failed. Backup canceled.

Symptom

$ backupios -file /home/padmin/mksysb/ibm74vioa_mksysb -mksysb

/home/padmin/mksysb/ibm74vioa_mksysb doesn't exist.

Creating /home/padmin/mksysb/ibm74vioa_mksysb
Backup in progress. This command can take a considerable amount of time
to complete, please be patient...


Creating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.
0512-008 savevg: The mkvgdata command failed. Backup canceled.

/usr/bin/mkvgdata[1068]: -: more tokens expected

Cause

This error is caused by having a user created filesystem mounted within rootvg.

Resolving The Problem

Unmount all user-created filesystems in rootvg and re-run backupios command.

Note: crfs command is NOT part of the padmin restricted user, and therefore it is NOT supported to create user filesystems in the Virtual I/O Server.

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 February 2022

UID

isg3T1011324

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