Greetings,
We are running SAS 9.4 on Linux.
I am attempting to backup our SAS environment, but SAS Backup Manager is not working.
Hi Jalaja,
The Deployment Backup and Recovery Tool saves information about each backup and recovery in a BackupHistory.xml
file. Based on the error reported by the tool it is possible that the one or more copies of this file
is damaged and the tool is unable to parse the file.
You can check to see if this is the reason for the problem by looking at the <sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Web/Logs/SASServer1_1/SASDeploymentBackup9.4.log file and searching the file for:
Error Code: 603
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException
You can try renaming each copy of the file and then run your ad-hoc backup which will create a new BackupHistory.xml file although you will lose previous history information.
Look for a copy of the BackupHistory.xml file on each tier in these locations and rename the file to something like old.BackupHistory.xml and then run the backup again.
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/Vault
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/dropzone/conf (or <sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/dropzone for pre 9.4M3 )
On the middle tier:
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Web/WebAppServer/SASServer1_1/temp/SASDeploymentBackup_APPHOME
If your middle tier is clustered you would need to rename the file for each SASServer1_N instance.
If this doesn't resolve the problem then I recommend opening a track with SAS Technical Support.
Michele
It is possible that your backup history file is corrupt.
Try renaming the BackupHistory.xml file to BackupHistory_old.xml in the following locations:
This will force the BackupHistory.xml files to be regenerated on the next backup. Re-run the backup and see if it completes successfully.
Hi Jalaja,
The Deployment Backup and Recovery Tool saves information about each backup and recovery in a BackupHistory.xml
file. Based on the error reported by the tool it is possible that the one or more copies of this file
is damaged and the tool is unable to parse the file.
You can check to see if this is the reason for the problem by looking at the <sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Web/Logs/SASServer1_1/SASDeploymentBackup9.4.log file and searching the file for:
Error Code: 603
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException
You can try renaming each copy of the file and then run your ad-hoc backup which will create a new BackupHistory.xml file although you will lose previous history information.
Look for a copy of the BackupHistory.xml file on each tier in these locations and rename the file to something like old.BackupHistory.xml and then run the backup again.
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/Vault
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/dropzone/conf (or <sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Backup/dropzone for pre 9.4M3 )
On the middle tier:
<sasconfigdir>/Lev1/Web/WebAppServer/SASServer1_1/temp/SASDeploymentBackup_APPHOME
If your middle tier is clustered you would need to rename the file for each SASServer1_N instance.
If this doesn't resolve the problem then I recommend opening a track with SAS Technical Support.
Michele
Greetings,
Thanks for your assistance.
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