| Title: | VAX and Alpha VMS |
| Notice: | This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1 |
| Moderator: | VAXAXP::BERNARDO |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1997 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 703 |
| Total number of notes: | 3722 |
Hi,
a customer says backup is playing an strange game. This is the problem.
He has a cluster with 2 VAXES 6XXX, and 2 ALPHAS.
He usually does backup from the VAX with VMS 5.5-2 of all the disks,
about 11 disks, and has no problem.
When he does the backup from the ALPHA with VMS 6.2 of all the disks,
using the same procedure, he receives the following error:
%BACKUP-F-WRITEERR, Error writing RBSPAXP:[LIS]7-MAR_$1$DRA2.LIS;1
-RMS-E-EXT, ACP file extend failed
-SYSTEM-F_EXQUOTA, process quota exceeded.
He has a .com procedure which submits when the system starts every
morning. The strange thing is why is this procedure going wrong when
this is done from the Alpha and not from the VAX.
We went through the user quotas and system parameters and changed them,
now they are very high (in the Alpha).
Thanks in advance,
Nieves
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 348.1 | what about *disk* quotas? | CUJO::SAMPSON | Wed Mar 19 1997 07:32 | 2 | |
Did he check for *disk* quotas on the destination disk?
Use the SYSMAN DISKQ command set to look at and change these.
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| 348.2 | Check Quota Ratios, Per Documentation | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Wed Mar 19 1997 08:18 | 24 |
I will assume you (.0) have checked COMET for any previous reports. This does not appear to be a disk quota problem (.1), it appears to be a process quota problem. Blindly changing the process quotas may/will lead to this error, as BACKUP is programmed to try to use the available quotas, and if the quotas are not in the correct ratio, problems such as this have been reported. Have the customer verify the BACKUP username meets the documented minimum process quotas for BACKUP operations, and that the quota values meet the documented ratios and relationships, as documented in the OpenVMS System Management: Essentials manual "Using BACKUP" chapter. -- Be aware that this VMScluster will have skewed proxy files and all proxy mantenance must be performed from the OpenVMS Alpha systems. (I'd encourage the customer to upgrade the OpenVMS VAX systems to at least V6.2 -- OpenVMS V7.1 is the current release.) | |||||