backup script failed with error '0403-005 Cannot create the specified file'

In AIX 5.1, a daily run script that backing up oracle data failed yesterday with following errors:
The Tivoli backup of DBPROD failed.

What could be the issue, OS, backup or Oracle?

ENOENT: Perhaps:

  • a mount is failing or
  • something in the path was renamed, or
  • a symbolic link is pointing to a deleted file.

Try running

find ... -follow -ls >/dev/null

and see what in those ... paths is not accessible

Perhaps the script is using "~oracle" to denote oracles home directory, but the script is not running in bash ? many shells do not understand "~"

Right! This sort of error usually prints out an open() compatible path, and open() does not do ~, that is a shell-ism of some shells and other apps, not the UNIX O/S itself.