savevg

[tech005]

i am trying to do a backup of a vg with the following cmd and it's erroring out

savevg -f /tmp/appsvg -v -i appsvg

backup medium write error: File too large
Check backup media and rerun the backup

0512-005 savevg: Backup Completed.
The backup command completed with errors.
The messages displayed on Standard Error contained additional
information.

 

[ogniemi]

do you have file size limit set to unlimited?

check:
ulimit -a

set:
ulimit -f unlimited

the /tmp should also be jfs2 type if you are going to create file greather 2GB