Invalid argument Error on brbackup in AIX 5.3

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are trying to make an online backup and we are geting the following error:

The sistem is in AIX 5.3, WAS JAVA 7.0 SP9 Portal 7.0 SP9

here the Error:

BR0051I BRBACKUP 7.00 (18)

BR0055I Start of database backup: bdusplfb.and 2007-03-02 15.40.23

BR0477I Oracle pfile /oracle/CAP/102_64/dbs/initCAP.ora created from

spfile /oracle/CAP/102_64/dbs/spfileCAP.ora

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.26

BR0319I Control file copy created: /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/cntrlCAP.dbf

9388032

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.26

BR0057I Backup of database: CAP

BR0058I BRBACKUP action ID: bdusplfb

BR0059I BRBACKUP function ID: and

BR0110I Backup mode: ALL

BR0077I Database file for backup: /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/cntrlCAP.dbf

BR0061I 13 files found for backup, total size 17989.047 MB

BR0143I Backup type: online

BR0112I Files will not be compressed

BR0130I Backup device type: disk

BR0106I Files will be saved on disk in

directory: /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.26

BR0256I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 's[top]' to cancel BRBACKUP:

c

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.31

BR0257I Your reply: 'c'

BR0259I Program execution will be continued...

BR0370I Directory /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb created

BR0370I Directory /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/CAP created

BR0202I Saving init_ora

BR0203I to /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/CAP ...

BR0202I Saving /oracle/CAP/102_64/dbs/initCAP.sap

BR0203I to /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/CAP ...

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.32

BR0198I Profiles saved successfully

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.32

BR0315I 'Alter tablespace PSAPSR3 begin backup' successful

BR0202I Saving /oracle/CAP/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1

BR0203I to /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb/sr3.data1 ...

BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C

cp /oracle/CAP/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1 /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb/sr3.data1':

cp: /oracle/CAP/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1: Invalid argument

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.32

BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C

cp /oracle/CAP/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1 /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb/sr3.data1': 1

BR0222E Copying /oracle/CAP/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1

to/from /oracle/CAP/sapbackup/bdusplfb/sr3.data1 failed due to previous

errors

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.35

BR0317I 'Alter tablespace PSAPSR3 end backup' successful

BR0056I End of database backup: bdusplfb.and 2007-03-02 15.40.32

BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.35

BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors

###############################################################################

BR0292I Execution of BRBACKUP finished with return code 5

BR0668I Warnings or errors occurred - you can continue to ignore them

or go back to repeat the last action

BR0280I BRTOOLS time stamp: 2007-03-02 15.40.35

BR0670I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 'b[ack]' to go back, 's[top]' to

abort:

Thanx in Advanced!!

Kind Regards,

Gerardo J

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am getting the same error and I found some articles on Oracle Metalink (Note 360287.1) regarding the filesystemio_options parameter and the mount option cio. Basically it looks as if AIX will not allow another program e.g. cp to access the oracle datafile whilst oracle is accessing it unless you have set the cio option at the filesystem level.

I haven't tried this yet as I need to get some downtime but I think this is what is causing the problem.

Be careful if you don't have the Oracle datafiles in seperate filesystems because there is a problem with cio and running binaries. (check the man pages for the cio mount option)

Hope this helps you.

Regards

Garry Bayford.

[Former Member]

Hi!

Thanx Alot for the help, I send an OSS message and they sent me a note and the solution, I hope this helps you out as well, you found the issue aswell and here is how to solve it:

SAP note 948294

Kind Regards,

Gerardo J