Continouos backup not working?

mrallgood · #1 (**permalink**) 02-16-05, 08:58

Hello,

We have set up all of our instances to have continouos backups of the logs. However, the backups seem to discontinue themselves and we are at wit's end trying to figure out why.

We have BACKUPLOGS=Y in our alarmprogram.sh and even when we issue nohup onbar -b -l -C &, it backs up the logs that need to be and then disappears...are we missing something?

RobP · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-05, 13:48

Hi,

I've never used the C option before. But what we normally do is setup the alarm program so that whenever a logical log is full (code 23) the onbar process is fired (onbar -b -l), it backups all logs that are not backed up and stops. When the next log fills, the process is repeated. The good thing regarding this implementation is that the onbar process is not running all the time, but only when necessary. Normally the log_full.sh script is almost completely setup to do this task.

Hope this helps,

Rob

mrallgood · #3 (**permalink**) 02-17-05, 07:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobP

Hi,

I've never used the C option before. But what we normally do is setup the alarm program so that whenever a logical log is full (code 23) the onbar process is fired (onbar -b -l), it backups all logs that are not backed up and stops. When the next log fills, the process is repeated. The good thing regarding this implementation is that the onbar process is not running all the time, but only when necessary. Normally the log_full.sh script is almost completely setup to do this task.

Hope this helps,

Rob

Hey Rob,

We have that set up, but for some reason, it just isn't doing it. Everything else is running fine except for backing up the logs...

mrallgood · #4 (**permalink**) 02-17-05, 14:08

I figured it out....had to comment out a bunch of confusing logic in alarmprograms.sh for error 23.

Instead of

Quote:

printf "Subject: $INFORMIXSERVER : $EVENT_SEVERITY_NAME : $EVENT_MSG\n" >> $MAILHEAD
printf "$EVENT_ADD_TEXT\n" >> $MAILBODY

# TO IMPLEMENT LATER
# If there is already a logical log backup don't launch onbar again.
if ( `test x${BACKUPLOGS} = xY` ) then
$BACKUP_CMD 2>&1 >> /dev/null
EXIT_STATUS=$?
printf " '$BACKUP_CMD' has been executed and returned CODE=%s\n\n" $EXIT_STATUS >> $MAILBODY
else
echo "Script will not backup the logical logs."
fi

# Now check if the logs are near to fill up
NUMLOGUB=`$ONSTATCMD -l | grep U-B | wc -l`
NUMLOGF=`$ONSTATCMD -l | grep F- | wc -l`
NUMLOGA=`$ONSTATCMD -l | grep A- | wc -l`
NUMLOGU=`$ONSTATCMD -l | grep U- | wc -l`
NUMLOG=`expr $NUMLOGU + $NUMLOGA + $NUMLOGF`
PERC=`expr $ 100 \* \( $NUMLOGUB + $NUMLOGF + $NUMLOGA $ \) / $NUMLOG `

if ( `test $PERC -le 10` ) then
PERC=`expr 100 - $PERC`
printf "\n-------------------------------------\n\n" >> $MAILBODY
printf "WARNING : MORE THAN 90 PERCENT (%s percent) OF THE LOGICAL LOGS ARE FULL\n" $PERC >> $MAILBODY
printf " A LOGICAL LOG BACKUP IS NEEDED. SEE INFO BELOW\n" >> $MAILBODY
$ONSTATCMD -l | grep -v Blocked: | grep -v Block: | tail +4 >> $MAILBODY
fi

I changed it to

Quote:

$BACKUP_CMD 2>&1 >> /dev/null
EXIT_STATUS=$?

Works like a champ now! Thanks Rob for pointing me in the right direction!