All,
7.5.0.6 has been rescheduled for late June. The new CEO of
Symantec is aware of declining reliability and increases in EEB creation.
We are running three NetBackup 7.5.0.5 domains under RedHat 5
(2.6.18-348) and VCS 5.0. We are running with two EEBs installed:
ET3106719 - the ghost jobs issue which replaces nbjobd
ET3156426 - image catalog filesystem grows dramatically thru failure to
properly clean the old files
This replaces nbpem & bpdbm
We also need to upgrade past VCS 5.0. VCS had been masking the
"largefiles" option of VxFS and the BMR_DATA.db file grep to 2 GB in the
primary UNIX domain. Instance crashed since it could not extend the BMR
database. Recovered OK - thanks to Matthew in Australia. We also have a work
around for the VCS mask of "largefiles".
We really need 7.5.0.6 for Windows Server 2012 support. This
is really not funny. This proliferation was needed before the end of the year.
That if flunked out of 7.5.0.5 and requires 7.5.0.6 is bad enough. The funny
thing is that the 7.5.0.6 release is now being delayed because the new Symantec
CEO smells the quality of what has been released in recent years (needed
features, but new and unexpected bugs along with the new code), and is
demanding actual engineering qualification of code releases. Here's hoping NBU
7.6 is delayed longer and for the same good reasons.
Rusty,
If you were me, and I already am running with two EEBs, and
have not experienced the NBSL crash and core dump, would you prophylactically
apply EEB ET3123001 on top of the others? I do not want to run a regression
testing lab for Symantec.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rusty Major
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:26 PM
To: Kohli, Vidit
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Post upgrade 7.5.0.5 issues?
Don't wait, there is a fix for the NBSL issues. You might want to call support
to make sure you get the right EEB for your issue as there is more than one.
-Rusty
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Kohli, Vidit
<vidit.ko...@blackrock.com<mailto:vidit.ko...@blackrock.com>> wrote:
There is major bug in 7.5.0.5 as per Symantec, so better wait for 7.5.0.6
nbsl experiences a memory leak which results in a core dump.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201979
Product
The following versions of NetBackup are affected by this issue:
NetBackup 7.5.0.5
Summary
The nbsl daemon crashes intermittently and creates a core dump. It was observed
that memory consumed by nbsl was constantly growing, and when it reached
somewhere around 4GB, nbsl would crash.
This issue is scheduled to be addressed in the following release:
* NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 6 (7.5.0.6)
From:
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu>]
On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:13 PM
To: 'Dwayne Adams';
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<mailto:veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Post upgrade 7.5.0.5 issues?
Hi,
Unsure for Windows, for Linux/64-bit and 7.5.0.5<http://7.5.0.5>:
Yes there is a problem with ghost jobs: (you will see 100s-1000s of jobs Active
but they really complete)
This EEB fixes that issue:
https://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH203521
Justin.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dwayne Adams
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Post upgrade 7.5.0.5 issues?
Hello,
I am starting to plan for a 7.5 upgrade from 6.5.6 in an environment that I am
consulting at for the next few months. Has anyone run into any major bugs or
issues with 7.5.0.5 after the upgrade? I am running Windows x64 as my master
with multiple NDMP filers and no media servers.
Thanks,
Dwayne Adams
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