>From the MP4 readme: Etrack Incident = ET313352
Description: Disk staging only submits one duplication job at a time so it was unable to make use of idle tape drives. Additional Notes: Up to four bpduplicate jobs are submitted at a time. The duplication jobs contain images grouped into jobs of 25 Gigabytes. By creating files named MAX_STAGING_JOBS and STAGING_JOB_KB_LIMIT in the NetBackup directory on the master server, these defaults can be adjusted as needed. For the STAGING_JOB_KB_LIMIT, the value is in kilobytes and the default is 26214400 (25 gigabytes). A smaller value causes more jobs to be submitted, but there will only be MAX_STAGING_JOBS running at a time. "It's not a bug, it's a feature." I've also seen those bid files present under 5.1 MP3a so it's nothing new anyway. I haven't seen hundreds either so I'm pretty sure NB is cleaning up after itself at some point. - John Nardello "Your backups are only as good as your restores." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geyer, Gregory Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 3:14 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 MP4 We've upgraded to 5.1 MP4 and are now experiencing issues with Disk staging. We've got a ticket open but interested to see if anyone else has experience these issues: The disk staging process now automatically takes 4 tape drives per DSSU when going off to tape. This is a problem if you have 6 DSSUs and only 15 tape drives, not to mention those drives are needed for other media servers. It is now also creating these files on the DSSU media servers in /usr/openv/netbackup: root@<hostname>:/usr/openv/netbackup# ll bid* -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1984 Dec 15 13:20 bid_file_bladestore_oracle0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 530 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_1_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1219 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_2_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 18 Dec 16 13:08 bid_file_bladestore_oracle_3_15240 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 293 Jul 1 2004 bid_file_bladestore_staging_1TB0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4375 Dec 15 10:04 bid_file_bladestore_unix0 <SNIP> In the files are a listing of images to get backed up. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu