Hi All,

Facing the below issue in backup.

10/26/2012 04:41:13 - Info bpbrm (pid=29434) from client Server1: TRV - Cannot lstat /data/zabbix/db_backup/backup_26-10-12.Custom.sql. Errno = 2: No such file or directory
10/26/2012 06:12:02 - Error bpbrm (pid=29434) socket read failed: errno = 52 - Stream ioctl timeout
10/26/2012 06:12:04 - Error bptm (pid=29441) media manager terminated by parent process
10/26/2012 06:12:12 - Info bpbkar (pid=10957) done. status: 13: file read failed
10/26/2012 06:12:12 - end writing; write time: 2:09:38
 file read failed  (13)

But, the job gets successful after a resume operation.

Help is appreciated.

Hi,

Netbackup master servers :-Linux 7.1.0.4

media server linux NBU 7.1.0.4

client Window 2008 NBU 7.1

i am trying to take a backup of specific file wich of size 610 KB,i am getting the failurs with EC 90. 

actaully when i try to take the backup with All local drives, this few files are not getting backup, so though they may be filtered by VSS list , so did verifed with the help of below T/N, but few files are not listed there and still not gettin backup.. 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH76997

so did created test policy and added only the file , and trying to take the backup, and got the error EC 90,below is the detail status of the failed job...

i though that the Data buffer size is causing the job failurs... so keep the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS as 32 but that is not reflecting on the backup job

i am not sure why its not taking those files.. i many servers with the same issue.. and most of them are Virtual server getting backup as Netbackup standard client..

hi,

i have cisco ucs servers in my environment with esx 5 running on them. Please suggest me the steps for configuring Vmware Consilidated backup .

Is there any aditional license is required for the same.

Netbackup master server is running on HP-UX 11i V3

NBU Version: 7.0.1

Thanks in advance.....

Environment: I've got a dedicated RHEL 5 linux master, with a RHEL 5 media server both running 7.1.0.4 support about 20 large oracle RAC servers (mix of prod and dev). Clients are running 6.5.6.

Problem: Archive log and block level backup jobs fail intermittently with status 50. These can happen between 4-16 times a day, without much apparent regard for client or time of day.

I've been looking into this for several days, and read some similar posts but nothing that really hits exactly what's happening for me. I've tried checking logs in various place and following the bread crumbs without success. It appears that at this moment the best I can do is from a dbclient log

04:06:30.936 [4082] <2> int_StartJob: INF - copyID: 1 - 1351238758
04:06:30.957 [4082] <2> int_WriteData: INF - writing buffer # 1 of size 262144
04:06:30.957 [4082] <16> writeToServer: ERR - send() to server on socket failed: Broken pipe (32)
04:06:30.957 [4082] <16> dbc_put: ERR - failed sending data to server
 

Thing is, my bphdb is empty even though it was created before last night's failures.

The job details themselves (picking 1 job out of 4 from last night):

10/26/2012 04:05:55 - Info nbjm (pid=9519) starting backup job (jobid=7354691) for client client.fqdn.com, policy ORACLE-BACKUP-POLICY-1, schedule Default-Application-Backup
10/26/2012 04:05:55 - Info nbjm (pid=9519) requesting STANDARD_RESOURCE resources from RB for backup job (jobid=7354691, request id:{F7F52164-1F43-11E2-AEF8-A4CCDB7997A6})
10/26/2012 04:05:55 - requesting resource DD-SPPDUPFI13x-ORACLE-0
10/26/2012 04:05:55 - requesting resource masterserver.fqdn.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.client.fqdn.com
10/26/2012 04:05:55 - requesting resource masterserver.fqdn.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.ORACLE-BACKUP-POLICY-1
10/26/2012 04:05:57 - granted resource  masterserver.fqdn.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.client.fqdn.com
10/26/2012 04:05:57 - granted resource  masterserver.fqdn.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.ORACLE-BACKUP-POLICY-1
10/26/2012 04:05:57 - granted resource  MediaID=@aaae2;Path=/path/to/nfs/STU/Oracle;MediaServer=mediaserver.fqdn.com
10/26/2012 04:05:57 - granted resource  DD-STU-ORACLE-17
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) client.fqdn.com is the host to backup data from
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) reading file list from client
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - estimated 0 kbytes needed
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - Info nbjm (pid=9519) started backup job for client client.fqdn.com, policy ORACLE-BACKUP-POLICY-1, schedule Default-Application-Backup on storage unit DD-STU-ORACLE-17
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - started process bpbrm (pid=30544)
10/26/2012 04:05:58 - connecting
10/26/2012 04:05:59 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) listening for client connection
10/26/2012 04:05:59 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) INF - Client read timeout = 3600
10/26/2012 04:06:05 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) accepted connection from client
10/26/2012 04:06:05 - Info bphdb (pid=0) Backup started
10/26/2012 04:06:05 - Info bpbrm (pid=30544) bptm pid: 30808
10/26/2012 04:06:05 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
10/26/2012 04:06:06 - Info bptm (pid=30808) start
10/26/2012 04:06:06 - Info bptm (pid=30808) using 262144 data buffer size
10/26/2012 04:06:06 - Info bptm (pid=30808) setting receive network buffer to 1048576 bytes
10/26/2012 04:06:06 - Info bptm (pid=30808) using 16 data buffers
10/26/2012 04:06:25 - Info bptm (pid=30808) start backup
10/26/2012 04:06:25 - Info bptm (pid=30808) backup child process is pid 32016
10/26/2012 04:06:25 - begin writing
10/26/2012 04:06:28 - Error bptm (pid=30808) media manager terminated by parent process
10/26/2012 04:07:03 - Info bphdb (pid=0) done. status: 150: termination requested by administrator
10/26/2012 04:07:03 - end writing; write time: 0:00:38
client process aborted  (50)
 

Any additional insight would be most appreaciated! I'm happy to provide additional data as required.

Hi all,

I ran the NBCC 7.5.0.3 Download tool on my Unix master server installed on Solaris 10.

I got CONSISTENCY_ERROR Integ_5_1 after running the tool.

I installed it in the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/support location and ran the tool.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Is there a recommended Buffer Size/Number settings for VTL for NBU Server v7.1 for SuSE?

(For instance, for OST its is 256K/64)

Thanks,

Edwin Danso

edwintdanso@hotmail.com

HI guys

i got a new project opened in which we have to configure huge number of SQL policies on NBU master server. 90% servers have multiple instances on each win 2008 servers.

as of now what I do is i create 2 policies 1 full , 1 incremental for each SQL instance on a server. now i hav got servers in my environment which hav 8 SQL instances on a single server. i ended up creating 16 different policies for a single server.

Is there a way or method to backup diffferent\multiple SQL instances of a server in a single netbackup policy ??

Hi ALL Mates,

I have below doubts regarding NBU

• Media which is drive 1 will always go back to the same slot from which it came after backup?
• If media is in drive 1 and it came from slot 2.And i ran inventory,will my new media will go to that slot 2?
• Can i manually move media from drive to a different slot from which it came?
• will my drive be down in case 2?
• can media be moved to different slots from where it first came into drive?

NBDBadmin.exe is in windows

dbadm is in unix

Above is for database managing.

How to check SYbase is up or not?

nbdb_ping is better or dbadm?

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Hi,

Master and media:netbackup 7.5 on RHEL

Client:Windows2008R2

Backups for client is failing with status 58,pings,nslookup,telnet,bpclntcmd,bptestbpcd are working fine from MASTER.pings,telnet,bpclntcmd,nslookup working fine but only bptestbpcd is failing with status 25 on MEDIASERVER(on MASTER everything is success).I tried to created bpcd dir on client and run bptestbpcd but there was no log created on client side.Please help.

<16>bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD(xxxxx_bk.cernerasp.com) failed: 25
cannot connect on socket
 

We have 2 networks one is primary and other is _bk,when I run backups on primary it works fine,so I was suspecting on _bk network problem,but how can I prove it to network/unix guys as pings,nslookup and telnet are working fine only bptestbpcd is failing that too on MEDIAserver and they will ask what is bptestbpcd,how can you say that its network issue when bptestbpcd fails?

I am upgrading from NBU 6.5.3  to NBU 7.1, and the instructions state that I must run he nbdb_admin -validate -full command to validate the DB brfore upgrading.     Do Netbackup services HAVE to be down when this runs ? 

Hello,

I had a request to just restore from a user's Calendar "recurring items" because if I restore everything, it would send out old appointments to meetings that happen in the past -- basically confusing other people.

We run Exchange GRT every day, but I cannot identify any "recurring calendar items"; is there a way?

Thank you,

Hi All,

I've added a large VM estate to my backup enviornment. I am on NetBackup 7.1.0.4 and backing up my VM's across the SAN. I am backing up 5 at a time at the moment, and using a query based client selection. I backing up 1 ESXi host at a time, but for the active jobs i am seeing around 12mb/s each, totalling a max of 60mb/s for 5 combined jobs.

I've seen this tech note however i dont think this is the case as my SAN backups are not that slow, however across the Network they are just as fast.

 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH193788&profileURL=https%3A%2F%2Fsymaccount-profile.symantec.com%2FSSO%2Findex.jsp%3FssoID%3D13515194771172Oqa9e8xTtZBq8xW5Y3sFMe8l37v53kgjtG3u

My policy is set to SAN, yet the job detailed status is showing the transfer type as black, yet when the job is finished it shows LAN. But whilst the backup job is running the NIC on the VM backup host are not utilisted.

Anyone have any performance improvement idea's for VM's?

Thanks,

Jay

Hi,

I am planning for taking backups through MSDP. But need your inputs on below points before finalizing,

1) How to Share MSDP storage server? Ex: If i take backup through Media Server (M1) and then it crashes, is there any way to restore it without making M1 server up and running.  As in tape there was an option to change to restore after bpmedia -movedb.

2) In our setup there are many Media Servers. Do i need to assign individual storages to each and every Media Servers?

Regards,

NBU 6.5.6 on client and server

HI Folks

Im thinking this is a NB bug but anyway theres a lot of folks in the forum with experience that may be able to shed some light.

Scenario: Sol10 Sparc master, NB7504.

Some other media servers, including a Windows box in the DR site.

Also at DR site: Sol10 x86 DR master server, shut down most of the time.

Previously tested: catalog written by Sol10 sparc master recovered onto Sol10 x86 master in DR. No problems.

Both masters have the same name.

However as above I've got a media server (the Windows box) at my DR site and I've configged a policy to write the catalog to that. And now I'm testing it.

I've got my override to tell it that it needs to not use the original media server: FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = <originalwindowsmediaserver> Solx86master

And the restore runs almost the whole way through...I get my catalog...clean as a whistle.

But right at the end I have issues:

It wont restore anything from /usr/openv/db/staging eg BMRDB, BMRDATA , (the kind of stuff you need at DR!) , theres maybe 20 files it refuses to deal with.

Then it gives error 2850  and thence

Failed to recover NBDB on <server> (5)

Thence unable to freeze media 000039 server name not found in Netbackup config (254)

If I repeat the exercise the result is slightly different:

Immediately the DR recovery tells me some utterly confusing message about 'these files will not be restored because they are not present when the backup- was done" (which is incorrect) then again it lists the contents of .../db/staging as it did the first attempt saying

.../staging/BMRDB.db is not in the true image list.Skipping.

etc

It then recovers the catalog and then repeats the  business of everything in .../db/staging were not restored.

My feeling is that whilst it  does the restore, it restores bp.conf, and when it has done that, it no longer has  the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER entry for the media servers I no longer have..so that act of the restore causes the restore of the staging data to fail.

bp.conf has changed, it is the one from the master, timestamp 15:25 and the error occurs at...you guessed it:15:25:43

So I need FORCE_  etc in the original bp.conf on the backup, BUT I dont want to do that when restoring, only in DR.I want to restore using the server that did the backup for speed.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,Jim

PIT Restores failed with error client/server handshaking failed(26) while recovery of domino database.

I was trying to recover a .nsf domino database to a PIT. full bcakup of .nsf file restored but while recovery of txn logs, error occured and failed witb status 26 and eventually 2826. Can some one help me with this issue.

I am trying to recover to the same domino server from where it got backedup. archive style logging is enabled. Domino v8.5.2.4. Master/media/client are NBU 7.1.0.4 on windows.

Job Detailed  status.

29/10/2012 15:49:17 - Info bptm(pid=4304) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id E10522 on server mediaserver007 for reading.
29/10/2012 15:49:17 - positioning E10522 to file 51
29/10/2012 15:49:44 - positioned E10522; position time: 00:00:27
29/10/2012 15:49:44 - begin reading
29/10/2012 15:54:15 - Error bpbrm(pid=8492) handshake failure when starting tar on box721; read:    
29/10/2012 15:54:15 - Info bpbrm(pid=7264) child done, status 26        
29/10/2012 15:54:15 - Info bpbrm(pid=7264) sending message to media manager: STOP RESTORE box721_1350079022    
29/10/2012 15:54:17 - Error bptm(pid=2032) The following files/folders were not restored:      
29/10/2012 15:54:17 - Error bptm(pid=2032) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002942.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:54:18 - restored image box721_1350079022 - (client/server handshaking failed(26)); restore time 00:05:11
29/10/2012 15:54:20 - restoring image box721_1350165999
29/10/2012 15:54:22 - Info bpbrm(pid=4356) box721 is the host to restore to     
29/10/2012 15:54:22 - Info bpbrm(pid=4356) telling media manager to start restore on client    
29/10/2012 15:54:25 - Info bpbrm(pid=2820) box721 is the host to restore to     
29/10/2012 15:54:25 - connecting
29/10/2012 15:54:26 - Info bpbrm(pid=2820) start tar32 on client        
29/10/2012 15:54:26 - requesting resource E10524
29/10/2012 15:54:26 - granted resource E10524
29/10/2012 15:54:26 - granted resource ACS_0.0.1.3_DC2_LTO5
29/10/2012 15:54:27 - Info bptm(pid=8400) Waiting for mount of media id E10524 (copy 1) on server mediaserver009.
29/10/2012 15:54:27 - started process bptm (8400)
29/10/2012 15:54:27 - mounting E10524
29/10/2012 15:54:29 - Info bptm(pid=8400) INF - Waiting for mount of media id E10524 on server mediaserver009 for reading.
29/10/2012 15:55:19 - mounted; mount time: 00:00:52
29/10/2012 15:55:19 - Info bptm(pid=8400) E10524           
29/10/2012 15:55:22 - Info bptm(pid=8400) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id E10524 on server mediaserver009 for reading.
29/10/2012 15:55:22 - positioning E10524 to file 149
29/10/2012 15:55:33 - positioned E10524; position time: 00:00:11
29/10/2012 15:55:33 - begin reading
29/10/2012 15:59:27 - Error bpbrm(pid=2820) handshake failure when starting tar on box721; read:    
29/10/2012 15:59:27 - Info bpbrm(pid=4356) child done, status 26        
29/10/2012 15:59:27 - Info bpbrm(pid=4356) sending message to media manager: STOP RESTORE box721_1350165999    
29/10/2012 15:59:29 - Error bptm(pid=8940) The following files/folders were not restored:      
29/10/2012 15:59:30 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002943.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:30 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002944.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:31 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002945.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:31 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002946.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:31 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002947.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:32 - Error bptm(pid=8940) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002948.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 15:59:33 - restored image box721_1350165999 - (client/server handshaking failed(26)); restore time 00:05:13
29/10/2012 15:59:34 - restoring image box721_1350249418
29/10/2012 15:59:37 - Info bpbrm(pid=10184) box721 is the host to restore to     
29/10/2012 15:59:37 - Info bpbrm(pid=10184) telling media manager to start restore on client    
29/10/2012 15:59:40 - Info bpbrm(pid=8756) box721 is the host to restore to     
29/10/2012 15:59:40 - connecting
29/10/2012 15:59:41 - Info bpbrm(pid=8756) start tar32 on client        
29/10/2012 15:59:41 - requesting resource E10606
29/10/2012 15:59:42 - Info bptm(pid=2112) Waiting for mount of media id E10606 (copy 1) on server mediaserver005.
29/10/2012 15:59:42 - started process bptm (2112)
29/10/2012 15:59:42 - mounting E10606
29/10/2012 15:59:42 - granted resource E10606
29/10/2012 15:59:42 - granted resource ACS_0.1.1.14_DC2_LTO5
29/10/2012 15:59:44 - Info bptm(pid=2112) INF - Waiting for mount of media id E10606 on server mediaserver005 for reading.
29/10/2012 16:00:42 - mounted; mount time: 00:01:00
29/10/2012 16:00:42 - Info bptm(pid=2112) E10606           
29/10/2012 16:00:44 - Info bptm(pid=2112) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id E10606 on server mediaserver005 for reading.
29/10/2012 16:00:44 - positioning E10606 to file 257
29/10/2012 16:01:41 - positioned E10606; position time: 00:00:57
29/10/2012 16:01:41 - begin reading
29/10/2012 16:04:42 - Error bpbrm(pid=8756) handshake failure when starting tar on box721; read:    
29/10/2012 16:04:42 - Info bpbrm(pid=10184) child done, status 26        
29/10/2012 16:04:42 - Info bpbrm(pid=10184) sending message to media manager: STOP RESTORE box721_1350249418    
29/10/2012 16:04:44 - Error bptm(pid=504) The following files/folders were not restored:      
29/10/2012 16:04:44 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002949.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:45 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002950.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:45 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002951.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:46 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002952.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:46 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002953.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:47 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002954.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:47 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002955.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:47 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002956.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:48 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002957.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:48 - Error bptm(pid=504) UTF - /Transaction Logs/S0002958.TXN~eb0b5d968a55d465-f883e654000003c8        
29/10/2012 16:04:49 - Error bptm(pid=504) more than 10 files were not restored, remaining ones are shown in the progress log.
29/10/2012 16:04:50 - restored image box721_1350249418 - (client/server handshaking failed(26)); restore time 00:05:16
29/10/2012 16:04:54 - end Restore; elapsed time: 00:16:48
invalid error number(2826)

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Can you help me please?

My problem is similar but I has two disk pool and one is DOWN and another is UP, see out below:

 ./bpstulist -U

Label:                odbpa207li-stu-pd
Storage Unit Type:    Disk
Storage Unit Subtype: DiskPool (6)
Host Connection:      odbpa207li.bkp.odebrecht.com
Concurrent Jobs:      32
On Demand Only:       yes
Max MPX:              1
Max Fragment Size:    51200 MB
Block Sharing:        yes
Ok On Root:           no
Disk Pool:            odbpa207li-dp00

#######################################################

Label:                odbpa223wi-stu-pd
Storage Unit Type:    Disk
Storage Unit Subtype: DiskPool (6)
Host Connection:      odbpa223wi.bkp.odebrecht.com
Concurrent Jobs:      70
On Demand Only:       yes
Max MPX:              1
Max Fragment Size:    51200 MB
Block Sharing:        yes
Ok On Root:           no
Disk Pool:            odbpa223wi-dp00

######################################################

 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevquery -listdv -stype PureDisk -U

Disk Pool Name      : odbpa207li-dp00
Disk Type           : PureDisk
Disk Volume Name    : PureDiskVolume
Disk Media ID       : @aaaaj
Total Capacity (GB) : 25285.11
Free Space (GB)     : 3666.85
Use%                : 85
Status              : DOWN
Flag                : ReadOnWrite
Flag                : AdminUp
Flag                : InternalDown
Num Read Mounts     : 0
Num Write Mounts    : 1
Cur Read Streams    : 0
Cur Write Streams   : 0

Disk Pool Name      : odbpa223wi-dp00
Disk Type           : PureDisk
Disk Volume Name    : PureDiskVolume
Disk Media ID       : @aaaah
Total Capacity (GB) : 15358.10
Free Space (GB)     : 5675.04
Use%                : 63
Status              : UP
Flag                : ReadOnWrite
Flag                : AdminUp
Flag                : InternalUp
Num Read Mounts     : 0
Num Write Mounts    : 1
Cur Read Streams    : 0
Cur Write Streams   : 0