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na_backuplog - captures significant events during file
system or volume backup and recovery activities.
/etc/log/backup
Node captures significant dump/restore/smtape-related
events and the respective times at which they occur. All
events are recorded in one-line messages in
/etc/log/backup. Dump/restore events are described first,
followed by smtape events.
The following are the dump/restore events node monitors:
- Start
- Dump/restore starts.
- Restart
- Restart of a dump/restore.
- End
- Dump/restore completes successfully.
- Abort
- The operation aborts.
- Error
- Dump/restore hits an unexpected
event.
- Options
- Logs the options as users specify.
Tape_open Output device is opened
successfully.
Tape_close Output device is closed
successfully.
- Phase_change
- As dump/restore completes a stage.
Dump specific events:
- Snapshot
- When the snapshot is created or
located.
- Base_dump
- When a valid base dump entry is
located.
Logging events for dump/restore:
Start_logging Logging begins.
- Stop_logging
- Logging ends.
Each dump/restore event record is in the following format:
TYPE TIME_STAMP IDENTIFIER EVENT (EVENT_INFO)
- TYPE
- Either dmp(dump), rst(restore) or
log events.
- TIME_STAMP
- Shows date and time at which event
occurs.
- IDENTIFIER
- Unique ID for the dump/restore.
- EVENT
- The event name.
- EVENT_INFO
- Event specific information.
A typical dump/restore event record message looks like:
dmp Thu Apr 5 18:54:56 PDT 2001 /vol/vol0/home(5)
Start (level 0, NDMP)
In the particular example:
- TYPE
- = dmp
- TIME_STAMP
- = Thu Apr 5 18:54:56 PDT 2001
- IDENTIFER
- = /vol/vol0/home(5)
- EVENT
- = Start
- EVENT_INFO
- = level 0, NDMP
The following is the smtape manager event:
- MGR-Start
- smtape manager starts.
Events specific for smtape backup:
- BKP-Start
- Backup job starts.
- BKP-Abort
- Backup job aborts.
- BKP-End
- Backup job ends.
BKP-Tape-Chg Backup job is waiting for tape
change.
BKP-Continue Backup job continues after tape
change.
- BKP-Params
- Starting parameters for backup job.
BKP-DW-Start Data warehouse starts for backup
job.
- BKP-DW-End
- Data warehouse ends for backup job.
- BKP-Warning
- Warning from backup job.
BKP-Tape-Stats Tape statistics for backup job.
Events specific for smtape restore:
- RST-Start
- Restore job starts.
- RST-Abort
- Restore job aborts.
- RST-End
- Restore job ends.
RST-Tape-Chg Restore job is waiting for tape
change.
RST-Continue Restore job continues after tape
change.
- RST-Params
- Starting parameters for restore job.
Events related to smtape operations from CLI:
- CLI-Backup
- smtape backup command.
- CLI-Restore
- smtape restore command.
- CLI-Abort
- smtape abort command.
- CLI-Continue
- smtape continue command.
Each smtape event record has the following format:
JOB_ID TIME_STAMP VOL_PATH EVENT (EVENT_INFO)
- JOB_ID
- Unique number for a backup/restore
job. Manager and CLI events do not
have job IDs.
- TIME_STAMP
- Shows date and time at which event
occurs.
- VOL_PATH
- Volume path associated with a
backup/restore job.
- EVENT
- Event name.
- EVENT_INFO
- Event specific information.
A typical smtape event record message looks like:
5 Tue Nov 4 19:48:56 GMT /vol/vol1 BKP-Start
(level 0 backup of Backup Set ID
c6872e62-ac3b-11dd-ab3c-00a0980868f8)
In the particular example:
- JOB_ID
- = 5
- TIME_STAMP
- = Tue Nov 4 19:48:56 GMT
- VOL_PATH
- = /vol/vol1
- EVENT
- = BKP-Start
- EVENT_INFO
- = level 0 backup of Backup Set ID
c6872e62-ac3b-11dd-ab3c-00a0980868f8
All event messages go to /etc/log/backup. On every Sunday
at 00:00, backup is rotated to backup.0 and backup.0 is
moved to backup.1 and so on. Up to 6 log files(spanning
up to 6 weeks) are kept.
The registry option backup.log.enable controls the
enabling and disabling of the logging with values on and
off respectively. The functionality is enabled by
default. (See na_options(1) for how to set options.)
- /etc/log/backup
- backup log file for current week.
/etc/log/backup.[0-5]
backup log files for previous weeks
na_dump(1), na_smtape(1), na_options(1), na_restore(1)
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