the “initrd” file has occupied 1.7GB of space in /tmp

@Ashok Somasundaram , I moved this into its own thread for better tracking.

Let me reach out to some of our Unix folks to explain better than I could!

Thankyou @Mike Struening appreciate your support..

Hi @Ashok Somasundaram,

The backup job utilizes /tmp when 1-touch backup is enabled.

During the system state backup we capture the server specific information and use /tmp as a staging area before its it moved into the backup. The file that are created during the backup are removed if the job completes without any errors.

Regards,

Gowri Shankar

HI @Gowri Shankar thankyou for your explanation. We have got the job completed with errors, from the logs we could see the log states and refers some disks as multipath, but is it not an external one. Is there anything i am missing out? 

LOGs

242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:24 2887941 check_and_add() - Already found [mpathey] in list. not adding...
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:24 2887941 check_and_add() - Already found, do not provision
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:24 2887941 populateScsiListUnified() - Skip disk [sdzf]. Already added it's holder
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:24 2887941 check_and_add() - Check for [mpathet]
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:24 2887941 CvProcess::system() - test -d /tmp/sysconf/disks/DM/mpathet
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:25 2887941 CvProcess::system() - Command completed with rc=0
242637 3b3cd 07/13 00:10:25 2887941 check_and_add() - Given disk[mpathet] is multipath disk
 

Multipath status

[root@******** Log_Files]# multipath -ll | grep -i mpathey
mpathey (360000970000297900416533030333142) dm-241 EMC     ,SYMMETRIX

[root@******** Log_Files]# multipath -ll | grep -i mpathet
mpathet (360000970000297900416533030333136) dm-231 EMC     ,SYMMETRIX

HI @Gowri Shankar can you please assist on this?

HI @Gowri Shankar,

thankyou for your feedback. And, yes i am aware that external multipath is not supported. However, the client was already backing up fine with one touch enabled. And recently we have got this issue and errors, after which we tried to disable the one touch for a while and reenabled the one touch and monitored it went fine and completing good now. Isn't strange? 

Hi @Ashok Somasundaram , 

Thank you for the update. Glad to know that the backup is completing without any errors.

During System state backup phase, we collect crucial system information which is required to rebuild the server while performing a recovery. In case if  we run into any errors while collecting / running any of the OS commands then the job completes with errors. 

Regards,

Gowri Shankar