Long ago in a 3.x version there was a (client) bug that went something
like...
there were 4 bytes of control info, the last byte indicated if a file was
compresses, routines always assumed the 4 bytes would be together within an
inbound record... when the randomness of data actually split the 4 byte
field across two different inbound records, garbage was loaded into the last
1, 2, or 3 bytes of the control field giving a situation such as you are
seeing.
In our case, the data was OK but we had to get a client fix before we could
get some files back.
Maybe this bug has raised its ugly little head again ! ?
just FYI
Dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Restore error message
Help on a restore.
I have a unix admin who sent me this message:
"That's right, I'm not yet sure if I really have a problem, but on 95% of
the files I'm restoring for the psdev root filesystem I get the following
error:
"File thought to be compressed was not"
Does this mean it was restored, but that we got an error because ADSM
thought it would have to uncompress the file as it restored it and in fact
didn't? Or are these files NOT being restored?"
I asked him some questions and have not heard back yet but I thought I'd
send this off anyway. To my knowledge he is using the latest TSM client for
true64, and the TSM server is AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.2.1.8
Here are just a few of the messages from the TSM server log:
"12/30/01 14:28:09 ANE4032E (Session: 7966, Node: CP-ITS-PSDEV) Error
processing '/nroot/': file is not compressed.
12/30/01 14:28:09 ANE4032E (Session: 7966, Node: CP-ITS-PSDEV) Error
processing '/nroot/': file is not compressed.
12/30/01 14:28:09 ANE4032E (Session: 7966, Node: CP-ITS-PSDEV) Error
processing '/nroot/.sysman': file is not compressed.
12/30/01 14:28:09 ANE4032E (Session: 7966, Node: CP-ITS-PSDEV) Error
processing '/nroot/.sysman': file is not compressed.
12/30/01 14:28:09 ANE4032E (Session: 7966, Node: CP-ITS-PSDEV) Error
processing '/nroot/.tags': file is not compressed.
Anyone seen this? Any help is appreciated.
Geoff
