Database backups not writing to disc, not enough space?

Question

I just inherited an AIX project which I know very little about. I have a cronjob that has been failing for a few days now that does a full backup of my database(db2). Looking at the logs, I'm seeing this:

SQL2419N  The target disk "/home/dbtmp/backups" has become full.

When checking out this directory:

(/var/spool/cron)> df -g /home/dbtmp
Filesystem    GB blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/dbtmplv      10.00      0.96   91%       85     1% /home/dbtmp

The size of the previous backups:

(/var/spool/cron)> ll /home/dbtmp/backups
total 18365248
-rw-------    1 hsprd    cics     4411498496 Feb 12 18:01 HSPRD.0.hsprd.NODE0000.CATN0000.20130212180036.001
-rw-------    1 hstrn    cics      874287104 Feb 12 18:08 HSTRN.0.hstrn.NODE0000.CATN0000.20130212180747.001
-rw-------    1 hstst    cics     3242835968 Feb 12 18:05 HSTST.0.hstst.NODE0000.CATN0000.20130212180443.001

What options to I have to fix this? Thank you.

Answer 1

As you can see, the size of your backup files exceeds the free space on the device. You need a larger device.