Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
I should note that I added the pre-MP4 patches, and left checkpoints enabled. I only have three policies that use checkpoints, all of them being large windows storage server NAS systems. The rest of my data is oracle on solaris. NB support said to call if the problem comes back, even though I have left the checkpoints enabled. I think they just want to know if it failed. If I get failures now, my only recourse is to disable checkpoints, leave the pre-4 patches, and wait patiently for MP4. Wow. 70 policy failures I bet that was annoying. -Jon I wish I would have gotten this thread on Friday, before I enabled checkpoint restart on all 70 policies and spent all Monday freaking out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bousselot Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:13 PM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas mailing list Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues An update on the support ticket... After submitting logs and various other things requested by support, the suggested solutions to my problem are: 1. Delete the pempersist file on a regular basis. 2. Disable checkpoints in the backup policy (this seems to be a major contributor to the problem) 3. Install some PRE-MP4 engineering patches that were granted only after the case was escalated. It is two files that you just replace and relaunch netbackup. 4. Disable checkpoints and wait for MP4 which should be released in November 2006. I have been deleting pempersist, and the problem goes away for five to fourteen days. Adding the engineering patches worked fine, but it has been less than a week, so I'll be watching the activity log closely. I really depend on checkpoints because I'm backing up millions of files on windows systems, and it takes a long time. -Jon On 9/12/2006 1:10 PM, Jon Bousselot wrote: That tech doc doesn't describe my problem exactaly, but I'm having a bug in 6.0mp3 where jobs don't run for weeks, Log a call. There are so many bugs in the stock MP3 scheduler that you'll need tech support to tell you if it's fixed in the currently-available binaries or if your issue is diferent. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
I wish I would have gotten this thread on Friday, before I enabled checkpoint restart on all 70 policies and spent all Monday freaking out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bousselot Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:13 PM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas mailing list Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues An update on the support ticket... After submitting logs and various other things requested by support, the suggested solutions to my problem are: 1. Delete the pempersist file on a regular basis. 2. Disable checkpoints in the backup policy (this seems to be a major contributor to the problem) 3. Install some PRE-MP4 engineering patches that were granted only after the case was escalated. It is two files that you just replace and relaunch netbackup. 4. Disable checkpoints and wait for MP4 which should be released in November 2006. I have been deleting pempersist, and the problem goes away for five to fourteen days. Adding the engineering patches worked fine, but it has been less than a week, so I'll be watching the activity log closely. I really depend on checkpoints because I'm backing up millions of files on windows systems, and it takes a long time. -Jon On 9/12/2006 1:10 PM, Jon Bousselot wrote: That tech doc doesn't describe my problem exactaly, but I'm having a bug in 6.0mp3 where jobs don't run for weeks, Log a call. There are so many bugs in the stock MP3 scheduler that you'll need tech support to tell you if it's fixed in the currently-available binaries or if your issue is diferent. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
An update on the support ticket... After submitting logs and various other things requested by support, the suggested solutions to my problem are: 1. Delete the pempersist file on a regular basis. 2. Disable checkpoints in the backup policy (this seems to be a major contributor to the problem) 3. Install some PRE-MP4 engineering patches that were granted only after the case was escalated. It is two files that you just replace and relaunch netbackup. 4. Disable checkpoints and wait for MP4 which should be released in November 2006. I have been deleting pempersist, and the problem goes away for five to fourteen days. Adding the engineering patches worked fine, but it has been less than a week, so I'll be watching the activity log closely. I really depend on checkpoints because I'm backing up millions of files on windows systems, and it takes a long time. -Jon On 9/12/2006 1:10 PM, Jon Bousselot wrote: That tech doc doesn't describe my problem exactaly, but I'm having a bug in 6.0mp3 where jobs don't run for weeks, Log a call. There are so many bugs in the stock MP3 scheduler that you'll need tech support to tell you if it's fixed in the currently-available binaries or if your issue is diferent. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
Sounds amazingly similar to what we ran into with MP3 - where bptm sent a malformed or bad message to nbjm causing nbjm to crash, followed by erratic behavior of pem and jm. I had to grab some Dr. Watson dumps for confirmation and we're now running engineering binaries. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:19 AM To: veritas mailing list Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues Not sure if any of you have been burned by this one, but it surprised me today. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281780.htm I found out that random fulls had been skipped for months on my new 6.0mp2 backup server. Veritas tells me there is no fix yet (even in mp3). It looks like if you have a server crash or netbackup crashes for some reason you could get into this situation. One of my 2 netbackup servers have had this happen. Jerry __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
We had this one for the LONGEST while :( /Steve --- On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Jerry wrote: Not sure if any of you have been burned by this one, but it surprised me today. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/281780.htm I found out that random fulls had been skipped for months on my new 6.0mp2 backup server. Veritas tells me there is no fix yet (even in mp3). It looks like if you have a server crash or netbackup crashes for some reason you could get into this situation. One of my 2 netbackup servers have had this happen. Jerry __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 scheduler issues
On 9/12/2006 1:10 PM, Jon Bousselot wrote: That tech doc doesn't describe my problem exactaly, but I'm having a bug in 6.0mp3 where jobs don't run for weeks, Log a call. There are so many bugs in the stock MP3 scheduler that you'll need tech support to tell you if it's fixed in the currently-available binaries or if your issue is diferent. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
