Backing up a SLES 10 server

I hope this is the right forum. My apologies if not. I have a SLES 10.1 OES 2 server that is resulting in some interesting error messages when our backup devices tries to do a full backup. We are using a solution from Unitrends and this is the only Linux server that yields these errors. The errors are exactly the same everytime a full backup is started.

Below is a small sampling of the errors:

a /_admin/Manage_NSS/LSS/ZLSS/Internal.cmd, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/LSS/ZLSS/Internal.cmd has been shortened by 1048576 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/LSS/ZLSS/PhysicalIO.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/LSS/ZLSS/PhysicalIO.xml has been shortened by 1046900 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/GeneralStats.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/GeneralStats.xml has been shortened by 1047293 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/BufferCache.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/BufferCache.xml has been shortened by 1047017 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/NameCache.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/NameCache.xml has been shortened by 1047854 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/FileStats.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/FileStats.xml has been shortened by 1048150 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/ObjectCache.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/ObjectCache.xml has been shortened by 1047885 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Thread.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Thread.xml has been shortened by 1047944 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/AuthorizationCache.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/AuthorizationCache.xml has been shortened by 1048188 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/CompressionStats.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/CompressionStats.xml has been shortened by 1048147 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/FileEvents.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/FileEvents.xml has been shortened by 1048414 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/ModifiedFilesList.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/ModifiedFilesList.xml has been shortened by 1048435 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/VolumeInfo.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/VolumeInfo.xml has been shortened by 1046710 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/UserInfo.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/UserInfo.xml has been shortened by 1048472 bytes!!
a /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/DirInfo.xml, 2048 blocks
ctar: file /_admin/Manage_NSS/Volume/_ADMIN/DirInfo.xml has been shortened by 1048446 bytes!!

Anyone have an idea of what is happening?

Thanks.

The OES forums are probably a better place, over on http://forums.novell.com/

Also, don’t try to backup _admin. I’m not sure that is a good thing since
it is not holding real data.

Good luck.

Thanks. I think you told me what I needed to know.