Error Recovery and Troubleshooting

Other sections include discussions of the types of errors that can occur in particular areas, with some suggestions for how to recover from them. This section discusses recovery from errors that occur more generally, principally in the areas of handling backup media, backup and restoration processes, and system errors such as GFEs, etc.

This section is divided into these major topics:

What to do Before Calling Your System Supplier	Outlines a series of steps to identify and document an error which you cannot correct yourself.
Troubleshooting Installation and Booting	Provides a question and answer format to discuss problems you may encounter when installing or booting mvBase.
Tape Function Errors	Concerns two common errors that can occur with tapes: parity errors, and tape format errors. Tape format errors occur when trying to read to or write from a tape whose format differs from the format setting of the tape processor.
Recovering from Aborts During Backup	Discusses problems that can occur during filesaves and backups. This section supplements the contents of the chapters entitled Backing Up Files, and Restoring Files in the mvBase Guide to Files and Accounts.
Special Problems During the Restore Cycle	Covers particular problems that can be encountered during a restore cycle. This section supplements the contents of the chapters entitled Backing Up Files, and Restoring Files in the mvBase Guide to Files and Accounts.
Group Format Errors	Discusses how the GFE Handler works, its types and commands.
Logging of System Errors	Covers the logging of disk errors, Group Format Errors, and native softrap errors in the SYSTEM-ERRORS file.

Troubleshooting suggestions for other problems can be found in these sections:

Using Printers and the Print Spooler	Printer and spooler problems.
Terminals	Terminal problems.
System Start-up and Shutdown	Recovering from a system failure.