We are planning to migrate our nertbackup catalog from solaris sparc to solaris intel. We have read some technotes that say we can do taking a full backup with ddr.

I like to be sure it works, can anybody tell me if it is posible?

best regards

Below are the Rman error logs.

What could be the issue here.

RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on arch_backup_sbt4 channel at 02/23/2013 08:02:57

ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="OCFP_0223_log_to_346529_162501", parms=""

ORA-27028: skgfqcre: sbtbackup returned error

ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:

   VxBSACreateObject: Failed with error:

   Server Status:  no storage units available for use

Hi 

I've restored successfully from archive some data to a NetApp location (working with NDMP) and noticed that a file called "restore_symboltable" was created with owner root: -rw-------   1 root     root     30072832 Feb 21 18:20 restore_symboltable

Any idea what this file might be and do I need it ? I've done many restores overs the years and never seen this file.

Thanks

Hi All,

We are running Netbackup version 7.5.0.4 and are planning to introduce dedup in our environment .We are also doing Vmware blib backups and will be testing dedup on them first .We are backing up around 500+ vm machines using Vstorage api on vsphere 5.0 .

We have allocated disk storage on one ouf our windows media server for testing dedup backups .Media server has 72G ram and 8 core processor ,4G backup nic.So can anybody let me know that should be used Media server deduplication or Client Dedup for vmware backups.....?

Have read somewhere that NetBackup Client Deduplication is a solution for Virtual machine backups but not able to find any docs supporting this or

any valueable points.Also on a lot of VM machines we dont have Netbackup client software installed .

Regards,

Abhishek

Hello

Recently we had replaced one of drive in autoloader (2 drive). After re-configuring STU with device config wizard drive is visible but all my tape based backup jobs are queued up . It shows required media server is offline

But services are running . Did i missed anything in re-configuration?

NBU 7.5.4

Windows 2003 R2 STD master server

Windows 2008 R2 STD media server

HP Autoloader (LTO-4 2drives)

New install of  a Master Server and 2 media servers using Solaris 11  Zones   Netbackup 7.5.0.4  

Example: 

Media Server    ( Media_1 )  installed on a Global Zone

Master Server  ( Master_1 )  installed on the local zone which is the  same physical server as  Media_1

New Physical server has (  Media_2)   on a Global Zone

This all works  fine  until you shut down the Netbackup daemons on the Media_1  server  ,

Part of the  ( netbackup )  shutdown  script will  run a ps -ea  and grep for nbemm  and  shutdown the master servers  nbemm.,

The reason is the script does not defined if the process_id is running on the local or global zone,. 

In the above example the netbackup  ( ps -ea | grep nbemm )   finds only  process_id of nbemm and kills it

This proccess_id is actually in the local zone  so it kills the masters nbemm.

Questions:

    1)  Do we support this example.   We do state we  Symantec Supports a master server is a local zone.,   How about  a master and      media server on a  physical server  using the global and local zones.

   2)  IUf this is support is there a way to change the ( netbackup )  start/stop switch   so the ps -eaZ  command will be used to select the correct zone when killing process ids .

Hello,

We installed 7.5.0.5 on last friday and since we have a lot of issues regarding the "Activity Monitor" which seems to be inconsistent. 

Basically, we have a lot of backup jobs (more than 200) that are either queued, active or "unknown". If we look more closely to the details, we can see that the jobs are actually finished.

• We can see the info "done, status 0" but the job is stuck at the "validating image for client xxx".
• The backup somehow successful because it is validated in the catalog and we can restore data from it.
• OPSCenter do not see those jobs at all.

Also, if I check "Report/Problems" on the console we see a lot of "socket open failed" critical errors. It seems that some nbu process fail to communicate between each other.

We did not had any issue of this type before this 7.5.0.5 (we were in 7.5.0.4).

I logged a support case but it was more than 2 days ago and was supposed to be contacted 2h later.

...I don't have any answer yet.

Regards,

Hi All,

Im looking at upgrading our physical 7.1.0.4 Master Servers to 7.5.0.5 then P2V.

Our VM guys have advised against a P2V and more so to a fresh build VM, im not sure how this would be feasible as our NBU binaries are on local disk but the DB is on SAN attached disk so we could RDM to the VM. Has anyone taken this approach or stuck to P2V?

I am also using NetBackup as Application Clusters on Standalone Media Servers, which require the Master Server to be the Robot control host, so this become a problem as I cant FC the robot to the VM.........anyone had this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Jay 

Hi All,

I have veritas netbackup 7.5 installed on my solaris box.

I'm able to launch the java console, but when i tried to launch Activity monitor its keep on loading and i cant see the active/inactive jobs.

This problem is resolving when i stop/start the netbackup.

How to resolve this issue Without restarting the NB?

Your response is much appreciated.

I have a Unix NBU 7.1.0.4 Master/Media server with 6 tape drives, and a windows NBU media server sharing one of those drives. The windows server is being used for VMWare backups.

Any idea how I can give priority of the shared drive to the Windows NBU Media Server?  I'd like my Master/Media server to only use that device only if all other drives are unavailable.

Hi experts.

I want to know how to verify if the backup has ended in order for me to verify in the script, if the log has different errors, and also to start the database.

Also the script opens the database after the bpbkar has ended and what is happening is that bpbkar process disappear for a moment and then appears back to continue to backup the database but the database has already been opened after not seeing the bpbkar process for a while.

while ps -ef|grep -w "[b]pbkar"
do
echo "Backup in progress...Waiting!" >> $LOGFILE
sleep 30
done
 

Friends,

given up on fixing disk pool volume down issue after spending whole morning.. this is the typical one..

nbdevquery and nbdevconfig works successfully.. you can inventory the disk pool from.. you can see the storage configuration properties under credentials tab.. disk pool stays alive less than 10secs and it goes down..  here is the spoold logs from that path.

gsrugnbapp01:/dedup_data/log/spad/gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk/spoold/spad

number of errors being reported of connection reset by peer.. i can bet my brand new BMW 325D on this.. the name resolution/nslookup and everything working okay.. no problem.. this problem arose over the weeked due where the media server (built in storage) went offline in the middle of the backup due to unexpected power outage..  looking at the logs below its suggesting connection reset by peer; REceive session shutdown

any suggestion will highly be appreciated.

February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Task Type         : spad
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Started at        : Mon Feb 25 13:49:19 2013
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Task ID           : 0
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Thread ID         : 140449875887872
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Session ID        : 1563389238
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Selection    : 1
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Name        : spoold
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Address     : gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39478
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: OS Family         : Linux-x86_64
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Software Version  : 7.0003.0012.091
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Protocol Version  : 6.6.1
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Crypto engine     : server
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Encryption   : enabled
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Compression  : enabled
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: Accelerated Access: disabled
February 25 13:49:19 INFO [140449875887872]: task 0 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39478: spad handler running
February 25 13:49:48 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:4
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Task Type         : spad
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Started at        : Mon Feb 25 13:50:14 2013
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Task ID           : 0
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Thread ID         : 140449875887872
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Session ID        : 1393531371
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Selection    : 1
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Name        : spoold
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Address     : gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39494
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: OS Family         : Linux-x86_64
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Software Version  : 7.0003.0012.091
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Protocol Version  : 6.6.1
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Crypto engine     : server
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Encryption   : enabled
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Compression  : enabled
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: Accelerated Access: disabled
February 25 13:50:14 INFO [140449875887872]: task 1 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39494: spad handler running
February 25 13:50:32 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:1
February 25 13:50:46 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:1
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:1
February 25 13:53:08 ERR [140449875887872]: 25000: NetSelect: invalid pipe
February 25 13:53:08 ERR [140449875887872]: 25036: binaryMessageRead:3398, Could not receive binary message: expected 4 bytes got 0 bytes. Cause: connection reset by peer
February 25 13:53:08 ERR [140449875887872]: 25036: binaryMessageRead:3398, Could not receive binary message: expected 4 bytes got -1 bytes. Cause: connection reset by peer
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: task 1 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39494: spad handler returns
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: task 0 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39478: spad handler returns
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Receive session shutdown
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Receive session shutdown
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Uptime                  : 173.54 sec
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Uptime                  : 228.61 sec
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Messages Received       : 19
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Messages Received       : 8
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Bytes Received          : 3996
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Bytes Received          : 2104
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Seconds spent receiving : 0.00
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Seconds spent receiving : 0.00
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Messages Sent           : 19
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Messages Sent           : 8
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Bytes Sent              : 1820
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Bytes Sent              : 744
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Seconds spent sending   : 0.00
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: Seconds spent sending   : 0.00
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: 0.00 MB sent in 173.54 sec
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: 0.00 MB sent in 228.61 sec
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: spad completed at: Mon Feb 25 13:53:07 2013
February 25 13:53:08 INFO [140449875887872]: spad completed at: Mon Feb 25 13:53:07 2013
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Task Type         : spad
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Started at        : Mon Feb 25 13:53:43 2013
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Task ID           : 0
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Thread ID         : 140449875887872
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Session ID        : 291392991
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Selection    : 1
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Name        : spoold
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Address     : gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39541
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: OS Family         : Linux-x86_64
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Software Version  : 7.0003.0012.091
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Protocol Version  : 6.6.1
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Crypto engine     : server
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Encryption   : enabled
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Compression  : enabled
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: Accelerated Access: disabled
February 25 13:53:43 INFO [140449875887872]: task 0 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39541: spad handler running
February 25 13:54:17 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:4
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Task Type         : spad
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Started at        : Mon Feb 25 13:54:45 2013
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Task ID           : 0
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Thread ID         : 140449875887872
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Session ID        : 1820742354
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Selection    : 1
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Name        : spoold
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Agent Address     : gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39553
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: OS Family         : Linux-x86_64
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Software Version  : 7.0003.0012.091
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Protocol Version  : 6.6.1
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Crypto engine     : server
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Encryption   : enabled
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Data Compression  : enabled
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: Accelerated Access: disabled
February 25 13:54:45 INFO [140449875887872]: task 9 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39553: spad handler running
February 25 13:56:23 INFO [140449875887872]: newEvent Adding new event. type:1
February 25 13:57:42 ERR [140449875887872]: 25036: binaryMessageRead:3398, Could not receive binary message: expected 4 bytes got 0 bytes. Cause: connection reset by peer
February 25 13:57:42 INFO [140449875887872]: task 0 [thread 140449875887872] for gsrugnbapp01.groupservices.co.uk:39541: spad handler returns
February 25 13:57:42 INFO [140449875887872]: Receive session shutdown
February 25 13:57:42 INFO [140449875887872]: Uptime                  : 238.56 sec
February 25 13:57:42 INFO [140449875887872]: Messages Received       : 6
 

Is there any way of performing Daily Incremental and then Weekly Full backups within the same SQL backups policy.

From past experience I would say no, but am being challenged and starting to doubt myself :-)

So would be good to get some re-assurance.

Hope you can help

Cheers

Nick

Master & two media servers running Windows 2003 & Netbackup 7.0.1

i80 tape library with 4 LTO5 drives

139 active backup clients mix of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Linux, Solaris, and 25 TB NDMP

The customer is adding more hosts to the backup schedule which is starting to slow things down a bit. I will have to start multiplex / multistream jobs in order to complete backups in the windows I have been given. I have seen where you can over multiplex / multistream and actually hurt performance.

I have standardized retention to diff's 3 weeks, fulls 3 months and monthly fulls 1 year on all jobs. Based on the current setup what would be a middle ground to use on multiplex / multistream? 

Dear Team

As I am new to NBU I have isue where a policy which is stuck and not progressing from more that 15 hrs it is continuosly in ACTIVE state.

HARDWARE SOLARIS
VERSION NetBackup 7.0.1
RELEASEDATE Thu Jul 08 00:13:47 CDT 2010
BUILDNUMBER 2010070

SunOS  5.10 Generic_147440-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

My policy is running for BMR backup for Solaris x86 server.

172216    Active    Image Cleanup        Mon Feb 25 10:21:18 CST 2013                            15109            1    Mounting                0    8798    root                Mon Feb 25 10:21:18 CST 2013    15109                                txslep18        
172215    Active    Backup        Sun Feb 24 23:07:38 CST 2013            txslep43-backup_FILES    Weekly_Full    txslep43-backup    txslep18    55529    EP18-DSU12        1    Connecting        1    /etc/dfs/sharetab    0    20304    root        172212        Sun Feb 24 23:07:40 CST 2013    55527                        Standard        txslep18    0    
172214    Active    Backup        Sun Feb 24 23:07:38 CST 2013            txslep43-backup_FILES    Weekly_Full    txslep43-backup    txslep18    55529    EP18-DSU12        1    Connecting        583    /devices/xsvc/    0    20298    root        172212        Sun Feb 24 23:07:39 CST 2013    55528                        Standard        txslep18    0    
172213    Active    Backup        Sun Feb 24 23:07:38 CST 2013            txslep43-backup_FILES    Weekly_Full    txslep43-backup    txslep18    55529    EP18-DSU12        1    Connecting        1    /    0    20291    root        172212        Sun Feb 24 23:07:38 CST 2013    55529                        Standard        txslep18    0    
172212    Active    Backup        Sun Feb 24 23:07:19 CST 2013            txslep43-backup_FILES    -    txslep43-backup    txslep18    55548    EP18-DSU12        1                    0        root        172212        Sun Feb 24 23:07:19 CST 2013    55548                        Standard        txslep18    0  

It is stuck ---

Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - requesting resource EP18-DSU12
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - requesting resource txslep18.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.txslep43-backup
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - requesting resource txslep18.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.txslep43-backup_FILES
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - granted resource  txslep18.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.txslep43-backup
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - granted resource  txslep18.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.txslep43-backup_FILES
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - granted resource  MediaID=@aaaab;Path=/ep18-dsu12;MediaServer=txslep18
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - granted resource  EP18-DSU12
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - estimated 16470259 kbytes needed
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - begin Parent Job
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - begin Stream Discovery: Start Notify Script
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:19 PM - started process RUNCMD (pid=20201)
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - ended process 0 (pid=20201)
Operation Status: 0
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - end Stream Discovery: Start Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:01
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - begin Stream Discovery: Stream Discovery
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - collecting BMR information
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - connecting
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - transfering BMR information to the master server
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - connecting
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:22 PM - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - started process bpmount (pid=25647)
Operation Status: 0
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - end Stream Discovery: Stream Discovery; elapsed time 0:00:00
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:20 PM - begin Stream Discovery: Bare Metal Restore Save
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:21 PM - started process bpbrm (pid=20263)
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:38 PM - BMR information transfer successful
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:38 PM - end writing
Operation Status: 0
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:38 PM - end Stream Discovery: Bare Metal Restore Save; elapsed time 0:00:18
Feb 24, 2013 11:07:38 PM - begin Stream Discovery: Policy Execution Manager Preprocessed

What Shall I do to check what actually is going on in background or are these process is in stale...

Guide me which log should i check more. Or Tell me how to clear all these and restart from fresh.

Note: all these policy backup were running fine and suddenly stopped from few days.

///K
 

hello..

  we are in process of vault setup [ have vault license :) ]  i read the vault admin guide but still  i have few questions can someone help me here pls

Question:

 1. if we want to go for a procedure like send original full backups to offisite [ offsite_pool ] , does it take it
    bec its original so i am curios the vault will eject those tapes or not ?
 
 2. is that ok to select catalog backup & eject in one profile ? if i select in one  profile how it process like
    eject job will wait until the catalog backup completed ?

thanks

Raj

Hi ALL,

1. Can I use the command -releaseOrphanedMedia  instead of   -releaseMDS [ID]    for my allocation issue?
2. nbrbutil -release request id and release allocation _ID.What is the difference between the two.

Master Server OS - win 2008 r2, NBU version - 7.5.0.4

There is a windows 2003 machine whose location E:\3365 has been mapped Network drive on master server name as 336x(\\gffs03)(Z:). 3365 folder contains the 5 mounted partitions and 6 folders.  Now when we check those mounted partitions from Z: drive, its seen as shortcut link (please check the screenshot). Type of this shortcut is mentioned as "Provided Volume".  Now when we try to backup the Z: drive, all the folders get backedup except the partitions. 

When we try to backup up the specific partitions by mentioning the path in selection list, the job fails with status 71

In Policy attribute - cross mounts and backed network drive option are checked.

Now i want to know whether this type of backup is allowed by Netbackup. If yes then what can be the solution. if no then why??

We have find the workaround as if we mentioned the UNC path containing the name of all the folders and reached till the file location, only then backup is successful. But the mounted partition contains many folder which is not possible to mention every folder path in selection list.

Please find the attachment of screenshot and bpbkar logs

Has anyone developed a standard evaluation process or a list/document that will help to insure we have valid backup data (tape or replicated) - for a specific system.

What is the criteria(s) for what qualifies as a successful test? Currently a way I validate a backup is to perform a restore of a previously selected date, what else should/could I be doing? And how? Any information or guidence is greatly appreciated. Any industry standards out here I could look up on this one?

Hi All,

We are doing oracle agent based backups and to backup multiple Oracle instances on a same host we have to create a seperate script for each

instance and a seperate policy for each instance. 

Is it possible if we can backup all Oracle instances using one policy and this can be achieved from one RMAN script ...?

As in the rman script we mention only one Oracle SID , if somehow we can mention multiple SID.

Please if you can suggest a solution /workaround for this as creating new policy for each instance will increase the number of policies.

Regards,

Abhishek