unable to open the item...skipped

[nix45]

Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 running on Win2K Server.

I'm backing up a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server and get this error on about 5 files each night...

Unable to open the item SERVERNAME/root\/path/to/file - skipped

The rest of the backup is okay. Why are these files being skipped? Are they open files that you need the open file agent to back up?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[nix45]

Does the open file agent work on Linux systems, or only Windows? I'm assuming that the problem is that these files are open during the backup.

Chris

 

[justin2000]

yep would say the files are open during backup - but files are really never open per say on *nix systems.
There is no open file option on linux - as per my statement above it is not needed.
What are the actual file names not being backed up?

 

[nix45]

They aren't system files, they are files that are part of a custom application. Some of them are log files, there is a lock file (I know we dont' need this), something called bkstprocess and another one called multiserver.pwd. The only important ones are the log files. I guess if worse comes to worse I'll write a simple cron job that will copy the files to a different location each night and back that up instead. I'd just like to know what the problem is with backing these up.

Chris