This can be because of a corrupt image. We also faced same issue where the
image cleanup was getting stuck at a particular client. We moved the
client's images to a temp location and restarted the netbackup services.
Image cleanup auto restarted and completed successfully.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, BeDour, Wayne <wbed...@lear.com> wrote:

>  All:
>
> Our environment, HP-UX 11-31 currently running one master / media server on
> NetBackup 6.5.2.  We are running mostly unix / Linux backups and a couple
> windows b/u’s thrown in for good measure.
>
> Currently, our image cleanup job hangs at the same place and will not
> complete without canceling it. The Detail Status shows it processing the
> same client when it hangs.
>
> Here is what got us to this point.  Last Thursday one of our admins kicked
> off a restore and didn’t notice that the window was for a few years.  He
> went home with the search still running.  Sometime overnight the /usr/openv
> filesystem  filled up.  The admin that kicked off the job didn’t work
> Friday so the rest of us didn’t know what was going on. (We have since
> flogged him and he is currently tied up..)   NetBackup was taken down and
> brought back up.  When NetBackup came up, we couldn’t submit jobs because
> the nbperm daemon wouldn’t stay up.  We found a document that said “nbjm
> and nbpem processes are not synchronized when this occurs, stale data is
> left both in the pempersist file and the cached schedule information.  As
> a result, nbpem never runs the job again, since its data indicates that the
> job is still active”.  We followed the instructions and cleaned up the
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/pempersist file and also had to clear lock
> files and the activity log database and deleted the following files: *****
> ** 063008.bpjobd.db* ,******* bpjobd.act.db******** ,******** bpjobd.db***
> ***** ,******** jobid******** ,******** jobid.lock******** ********
> pempersist2********. * The bad news was that it cleared out the activity
> log for the 2 weeks which we can live with.
>
> So, that’s where we are, anyone know how to take care of the image cleanup
> hang?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Wayne BeDour
>
> Unix System Administrator
>
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