Larry,

Be careful!!  HP told us that we needed those files!  Their first suggestion was to
purge the files, do the backup, then rebuild the files.  We just decided to do a store
like this:

store / - /dev/@;<other options here>

Kevin Newman

Larry Barnes wrote:

> > Thanks everyone for responding.  I failed to include some "minor" info.  I am
> > running on MPE/ix 6.0 with all the latest reactive patches.
>
> I've been working with Beechglen (sorry for the plug).  After several hours it was
> discovered that 4 files in the /dev/ directory were causing the problem.  As long
> as I didn't include the /dev/ directory I could back up the entire system.
>
> The 5 files in question were /dev/autoraid30 thru /dev/autoraid34.  We deleted
> these files and everything works well.  This does leave a few issues open but we
> are working thru them.
>
> Our HP-12h originally came up with ldevs 30-34 for the autoraid drives.  With some
> configuration changes they are now ldevs 1-5.  I believe these files in the /dev/
> directory were confusing the store command (for lack of a more technical term).
>
> Anyway our new 997/400 box is now up and I'm beginning the process of creating
> volume sets and the accounting structures and then the eventful migration of all
> our data.  Of course this will all be done and parallel tested by Friday nite so
> the cut over can take place Saturday nite!!!!  Bring on the mid-nite madness.....