Thanks Michel,
the backup dir is in another drive (C:, CSCOpx is in E:) with enough space left (about 4 time the needed).
Anyway, after a deeper analisys of the dbbackup.log file, I figured out that the backup started, but due to the "ERROR(992)", the backup dir is removed from. See the shortened dbbackup.log output:
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Backup to 'c:/CW2000_bck' started at: [Mon Apr 3 04:25:01 2006]
Archiving the contents of the following directories into c:/CW2000_bck\36\campus\filebackup.tar
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/campus/etc/cwsi\DeviceDiscovery.properties
[...]
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/htdocs/campus/maps
/cygdrive/e/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Archiving the contents of the following directories into c:/CW2000_bck\36\cmf\filebackup.tar
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/lib/classpath/com/cisco/nm/cmf/servlet\cwpass
[...]
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/lib/classpath\proxy.properties
/cygdrive/e/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Archiving the contents of the following directories into c:/CW2000_bck\36\dfm\filebackup.tar
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/objects/smarts/conf
[...]
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/setup\dfm.info
/cygdrive/e/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Archiving the contents of the following directories into c:/CW2000_bck\36\rmeng\filebackup.tar
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/files/rme/jobs/swim
[...]
E:/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/files/rme/cri/archives
/cygdrive/e/PROGRA~1/CSCOpx/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Starting database engine dfmInvEng
ERROR(992): Fatal error: Database engine 'dfmInvEng' could not be started on database 'dfmInvDb' in Bulk mode..
Backup failed: 2006/04/03 04:34:48
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Removing directory c:\CW2000_bck\36
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Note that running the immediate backup does not cause the dir to by removed. 😮
Paolo C.
