Dell Avamar for Oracle 19.10 User Guide

The Avamar activity.log file contains avtar errors similar to the following:

avtar Info <8650>: Opening cache file /usr/local/avamar/var/f_cache2.dat
avtar Error <5064>: Cannot open file "/usr/local/avamar/var/f_cache2.dat"
avtar Error <0000>: Invalid cache file header for /usr/local/avamar/var/f_cache2.dat, clearing the cache
avtar Info <5065>: Creating new paging cache file /usr/local/avamar/var/f_cache2.dat
avtar Error <5803>: Error writing 32-byte header to cache file /usr/local/avamar/var/f_cache2.dat.

These errors occur if the specified var directory does not have sufficient permissions for the Oracle user. The Oracle user requires read, write, and execute permissions for the var directory.

Specify the /var/avamar/clientlogs directory for backups that you perform from the RMAN CLI.

Backups with Avamar Administrator automatically access the cache files from the /var/clientlogs directory.