HPUX 10.20 backup

[wicho]

I did a backup to B180L machine and now can not start my workstation
because it is showing me at the start up HPUX progress low space
write failed, file system is full"

Can someone help me to fix this problem, I have all my information
into it.

Regards.

Luis

[Martin Jost]

"wicho" <lvel...@insercomm.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:5e7b2e89.04050...@posting.google.com...

I see two options.
1. (simpler one)
- Interrupt the boot process, when it is offered (using the ESC-Key)
- Enter "bo pri ipl" (without the quotes) [== "Boot Primary Boot Disc, Boot to IPL]
- If you are asked if you want to start the IPL, answer "yes" (The above contains this and is needed on older machines)
- At the ISL>-prompt enter "hpux -is" to start HPUX in single user mode
- This should bring you to a single user login as root. Now you can try to clean up

2. (now it's getting ugly; the notes are a quick and dirty translation of my German notes on that)
If 1.) fails:
- get your "support media CD" in the drive
- Boot from the CD media to IPL (similarly to above)
(Something like "bo <HW-Path to CD> IPL") [Can someone throw in better details on this ? I don't want to reboot one of my machines, just to have a try ;-)]
- At the ISL>-prompt enter "700support"
- Choose the KBD-lang
- Confirm the message about ACE
(It now looks, as if it is about to _install_ HPUX - this is ok)
- At the appearing menu, choose "Run recovery-shell".
- Choose "explain Root-Recovery" (or something like this) - Option 'c'
(This yields: 'exit to shell, enter 'chroot_lvmdisk')
So: "chroot_lvmdisk" (You'll need the HW-Path of your root disc)
- chroot /ROOT /sbin/sh
(This starts /sbin/sh in the chroot-Env. of /ROOT, where your root-disc got mounted)
- vgchange -a y /dev/vg... (insert the name of your root-VG (usually 'vg00' for vg.....))
This activates the root-vg
- Do your clean up
- exit with 'reboot'

HTH

Martin

(Sorry, I know it's a bit cryptic, but these are just my reminders, intended for use in front of a system)