Sun Enterprise 4000 Server
 

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Sun Fire [TM] 3800, 4800, 4810, and 6800 dumpconfig, restoreconfig, or flashupdate commands may fail with:

Failed to create NVCI backup.
Did not create TOD configuration file.
Backup failed. No configuration information saved.

The suspected cause of this problem is that the absolute path is required, but is not being used for the URL or FTP path in these commands. For example, if the path name specified is not relative to the user's home directory (e.g. - /var/tmp), then the command will fail unless the absolute path is specified by typing a double slash (//) after the hostname. If the double slash is not used, the path is interpreted as relative to the home directory of the specified user.

The following dumpconfig command syntax specifies the relative path under "userid" and will fail with the above errors if this relative path does not exit under userid's home directory:

dumpconfig -f ftp://[<userid>:<password>@]<hostname> /<path>

Example of using this command in a way that will cause it to fail:

dumpconfig -f ftp://tmpuser:tmppassword@myhost/var/tmp

This command will attempt to save the dumpconfig files to ~tmpuser/var/tmp on host "myhost". If var/tmp doesn't exist under tmpuser's home directory, this command will fail.

The following dumpconfig command syntax uses the absolute path and should work if the absolute path is required:

dumpconfig -f ftp://[<userid>:<password>@]<hostname> //<path>

Example of using this command in a way that should work:

dumpconfig -f ftp://tmpuser:tmppassword@myhost//var/tmp

This will attempt to save the dumpconfig files to the /var/tmp directory on the host "myhost" and should succeed as /var/tmp should exist and be writable by tmpuser.

Product
Sun Enterprise 4000 Server

Internal Comments

See also infodoc 41342 Sun Fire
[TM] example of dumpconfig and restoreconfig

Evaluated By: Miguel Saenz

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