From: Milligan, Eric T. (Eric.Milligan@ngc.com)
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 16:22:24 EST
Hello gurus -
This is a call for suggestions more than a dire need for help. Basically, we base one of our products on machines running 4.0F with PatchKit 8 installed, and as part of the disaster recovery instructions we send out to our customers we use dump & restore on the UFS filesystems. As recently as PatchKit 7, we've not had any problems running dump in single-user mode to backup the systems, booting off the OS CD, and using restore from there to recover the data.
However, we're hitting an error now on restores. The error message is "Cannot malloc space for property list." From the release notes (http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/patch/40F/bl22/ReleaseNotes.pdf) I see that patch 1193 "fixes" that problem. That patch updates not only restore but dump as well, so our theory is that problems arise when the "virgin" version of restore on the OS CD acts on files created by the patched version of dump.
Has anyone else ran into similar problems, and if so how did you work around it?
Our current plan of attack is to just back out patch 1193 from our PK8 systems. That way, dump and restore would be at the "virgin" state again, as on the OS boot CD. Suggestions?
Thanks all,
Eric Milligan
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