Hi every body,

Does someone has an idea about this error message , that i met on AIX 4.3.3

cpio : 0511-025 Cannot get information about dbalpa/idx12_alpa.dbf.
cpio : 0511-025 Cannot get information about dbalpa/idx13_alpa.dbf.
5975530 block(s)
these messages are the result of the following loop


echo "\n\n\n data base files Compression $ORACLE_SID\n\n"

#for PARTITION in "$REPACOMP1 $REPACOMP2 $REPACOMP3"
#do
cd "$REPACOMP1"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "\n\nERROR_DETECTED during FS compression:$REPACOMP1 "
return
else
find . -print|cpio -omdcB|gzip >$REPDEST/base1${ORACLE_SID}.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "\n\nERROR_DETECTED during FScompression $REPACOMP1"
return
fi
VERIFFIC=$REPACOMP1
fi
find . -print|cpio -omdcB|gzip >$REPDEST/base1${ORACLE_SID}.gz

"find . -print" created a list of files.
cpio tried to ar chive them.
cpio encountered an error with the file named dbalpa/idx12_alpa.dbf.
Have a look at that file : "ls -l dbalpa/idx12_alpa.dbf", and see if the guy who performs the cpio has permissions on that file (probably owned by oracle).
hth
Zorba

Thanks for your response,
I effectively verified , before to post my help request , that the file performed had the rights permissions.

which are :
-rwxr-x--x 1 oracle dba 13114 11 jul 11:08 stop+expcomp.sh


and i get the same errors continuously!!

and who is performing the cpio ? The same user named "oracle", while he is in the dba group ?

yes, it's the user oracle who is performing the script via a crontab, as followed:

01 1 * * * su - oracle -c /home/oracle/tools/prepabase.sh >/dev/null


the above script call the first script i previously sent an excerpt.

Why don't you run the script from oracle's crontab? su-ing in cron is A Bad Idea. Also, why are you using $REPACOMP1 instead of $PARTITION in your loop? You're just doing the same thing in the loop three times instead of each of the arguments to the loop.

wait wait!
what are the right and who is the owner of the files you want to save, dbalpa/idx12_alpa.dbf and dbalpa/idx13_alpa.dbf.
I encounter the same error because the owner of the file to be saved is nobody, and on the aix system "nobody" have a an ID > 65000, the cpio can't save the file.

hi,
The owner is oracle

a last idea : what is the size of the file ?
some cpio don't save file more than 2GB.

Why are you using the 'm' and 'd' flags? They're only useful when restoring from a cpio archive, not when creating one?