Hi David, your core did not help much in revealing the cause. Looking through the changes between 7.4.3 Build 014 and now, I found a suspect though. Could you please check if your medium has the block size 0 (medium_getall), and if so, recreate it with a non-zero block size e.g.:
medium_put BACKdata/1 /tmp/sapdb/pipe1 PIPE DATA 0 8 medium_put BACKdata/2 /tmp/sapdb/pipe2 PIPE DATA 0 8 Does this help with the dbmcli of 7.4.3 Build 14 (backup and restore)? Regarding the recover. Please do not confuse a backup ID (BID) of Backint for Oracle/Backint for SAP DB with an external backup ID (EBID) of SAP DB. An external backup ID of SAP DB has for the Backint for SAP DB connection the following look: "<dbname> <BID> <pipename>" You can determine external backup ID's of backups with interactive dbmcli sessions: dbcmli ... >backup_ext_ids_get BACK >backup_ext_ids_list or >backup_history_open -e >Backup_history_list -m -e Best Regards, Tilo Heinrich SAP Labs Berlin -----Original Message----- From: David Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 26. M�rz 2003 12:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with backint interface I'm running sapdb 7.4.03.14 (kit downloaded from sapdb.org) on RedHat Linux advanced server 7.1. I'm trying to use the sapdb backint interface to backup and restore the database - I have written a shellscript that implements the backint interface. I've had some help from Tilo Heinrich on a problem I had getting the backup_start command to work. Tilo sent me a new dbmcli that I can use in -s mode, and with that I can do saves using my backint interface - thanks, Tilo. I'm making a parallel backup using two media. Now I'm on to the important bit - restores. First, I tried 'recover_start' using the dbmcli from the 7.4.03.14 kit. This fails, error '-4,protocol error'. So I switched to the dbmcli that Tilo sent me, in -s mode. To do the restore I issue the command: recover_start backdata data externalbackupid "rh71SAPDB1F001, rh71SAPDB1F001" And the error I get is: -24925,ERR_PREPARE: preparation of backup operation failed The list of external backup ID's contains no external backup ID at list element 1. I attach dbm.prt and dbm.ebp. Any help would be appreciated. David Lane _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
