RE: HMC Save Critical Console Data

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a problem once where the DVD drive had to be replaced on one of
our HMCs because it had some sort of memory access problems.  Direct
memory something, I can't recall for sure.  The symptom was that the
little light on the drive would blink in a way that made the light look
like it was basically on solid, yet dim.

HTH.  


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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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Alright... fixes are done without too much trouble (the Infocenter
updates were LONG downloads), but my 'Save Critical Console Data'
operation still goes to the DVD and runs for hours with the light
flashing.  I've got a PMR open on it and will hopefully go further with
IBM on the issue today.

Anyone ever run into problems with this HMC save?

 

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Yes.  Get the fixes.  It's cool.

Rob Berendt
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HMC Save Critical Console Data







 Has anyone run into a problem where the Save Critical Console Data
function runs for a long time and seems to not complete?  I'm trying to
run an initial backup of our new HMC and the first 2 saves have behaved
this way (the first one (18hours+) was due to an unformatted DVD, but
the second one was freshly formatted from the HMC for backup/restore(I
ended it and rebooted at around 4 hours).  Support has suggested that I
load MH00695, MH00746, MH00688, and MH00822, but i'd really like to get
a backup completed before loading HMC fixes (which will also be a first
for me).

Any ideas on why the process might not be completing?  It gives the
following status:

Backup starting...
Generating the list of files to archive...
Number of files to archive is: 1541
Creating archive file...
Offloading archive file...

At this point the DVD drive light is blinking every so often.


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