Eliminate / restore a device of which incremental backup is executed

Revised on January 20, 2014

To eliminate / restore a device of which incremental backup is executed, please take the following procedures:
The following problems may occur if you don't take the required action as described below.

• Cannot remove the device from the target system.
• Restore operation terminate with error [-231]
• Data are not correctly updated on the restored device, etc.

Procedures

1. Delete the backup schedule which the restore / elimination target device is specified.
2. From the console run the following commands.

# /etc/aipsnap status --detail
→ Tracking information is provided as follows:
aipsnap-1.0.2-329 is running

Snapshot activated

Enabled Snapshots

Enabled Trackers
    tr2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/loop2

Incremental Configured Devices
    /dev/sdc1
# /etc/aipsnap disable_tracker <device name>
→ Remove the corresponding device.

3. Restore or eliminate the device of which tracking information is deleted.

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