Hi Jeff, Thank you for your feedback, it is very useful. I will have to do more load testing from your feedback.
Justin. On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > NetBackup was locked up and certain parts of the Linux OS weren't > working. (e.g. I couldn't run ps -ef and get full output - it would > hang). If I ran "cat /proc/stat" I would see process_blocked was > showing 5 or higher whereas without these big things running it is > typically at 0 or 1. > > At present I suspect this is more an issue with the server or its > configuration than with NetBackup. I haven't yet had a chance to delve > into it owing to the other issues and since I have a work around (other > media servers) I've put it on the back burner. It works fine for most > of our other UNIX/Linux/Windows backups. I saw similar issues on a > RHEL5 Media server back when we were doing 6.5.4. On that server when > trying to push backups to dedupe units it was experiencing similar hangs > but when pushing to the tape library it wasn't. Since we got a new disk > array and san switches at the same time as the library it may simply be > we need to throttle things back or it could be an issue with the NFS > stack. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:40 PM > To: Lightner, Jeff > Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 7.1 > > > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > >> There appear to be differences in where fully qualified domain names >> need to be used. >> >> We have moved most of our environment to 7.1 but do have a few >> outstanding issues: >> >> Can't backup SQL 2000 on MS 2000 (not supported - we put the NBU 6.5.4 >> client on this server since there isn't a 7.1 version. Someone on > this >> list says they got it working with 7.0.1 master and 6.5.3 client.). >> >> MS-Exchange 2010 GRT restores don't seem to work. We have a case > open >> for this and have been providing info. This morning we're hearing > this >> may be a known issue with migrating mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to > 2010 >> and there may be an engineering binary available. No confirmation > yet. >> >> Issue with bpclntcmd not resolving correct client names from HP-UX > media >> server. (See forum for my posts on that topic.) >> >> Also we're running a RHEL6 (Linux) master and I'm seeing system > lockups >> whenever we try to push extremely large items there. I first saw > this >> when setting up vaulting which duplicates Data Domain to Quantum i6000 >> tape robot. Earlier in the week saw it again when I tried to push >> large Exchange (old Exchange 2003) backup to Data Domain. Both of >> these issues were mitigated by using the HP-UX media server for > vaulting >> and to do the backup. (However the backup is the one affected by the >> bpclntcmd issue above.) > > The entire system locked up or just NetBackup? Does a cycle fix it? > This is very scary and makes me wonder if 7.1 is ready for heavy > production > loads? > > Justin. > > Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. > > Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. > ---------------------------------- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential > information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are > not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of > the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you > have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately > to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. > Thank you. > ---------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu