Troubleshooting Guide, Appendix A. Functional Overview.

Does a pretty good job of outlining what Netbackup is 
doing.

Other than that, well maybe someone will publish 
something soon ;-)

David

Quoting "Marelas, Peter" <MarelP AT australia.stortek DOT com>:

> I tend to compare the logs of a successful backup to 
a failed backup.
> It also helps to know the steps Netbackup takes to 
execute a backup.
> I havent found a good document for this.
>
> When fishing through logs, you need to look at more 
than just one log.
> Netbackup, spawns multiple processes that communicate 
with each
> other to perform a backup and each type of process 
writes to its own log.
>
> Regards
> Peter Marelas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       kkadams AT mmm DOT com [SMTP:kkadams AT mmm DOT com]
> > Sent:       Friday, 20 April 2001 12:23 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject:    RE: [Veritas-bu] Behvoural question
> >
> >
> >
> > I too experience infrequent 4x errors. Usually they 
happen on the same
> set
> > of
> > clients. I've found that logging above level 1 
increases the amount of
> > occurences.
> >
> > Having said that I'm a newbie to Netbackup. Being a 
newbie I find
> > troubleshooting with the logs can be like reading 
another language. How
> > did you
> > experienced Netbackupers become familiar with the 
logs? Do you just keep
> > reading
> > and reading and reading until it becomes English or 
is there some sort of
> > guideline to follow?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > |--------+------------------------------>
> > |        |          "Zufall, Ken"       |
> > |        |          <[email protected]|
> > |        |          owell.com>          |
> > |        |                              |
> > |        |          04/19/01 08:27 AM   |
> > |        |                              |
> > |--------+------------------------------>
> >
> >
> >-----------------------------------------------------
--------------------
> > ---|
> >   |
> > |
> >   |     To:     "'Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]'" 
<AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca>
> > |
> >   |       Veritas BU <veritas-
bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> > |
> >   |     cc:     (bcc: Khris K. Adams/CA-
Canada/3M/US)
> > |
> >   |     Subject:     RE: [Veritas-bu] Behvoural 
question
> > |
> >
> >
> >-----------------------------------------------------
--------------------
> > ---|
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I've seen this in the past but have never been able 
to track the cause.
> > The
> > error I usually receive is a 41.
> >
> > Ken Zufall
> > 330.202.4113
> >
> > "It's not the most difficult job in the world, but 
I do have to know all
> > the
> > letters." - Vanna White
> >
> >
> >           -----Original Message-----
> >           From:     Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]
> > [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
> >           Sent:     Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:57 
PM
> >           To:  Veritas BU
> >           Subject:  [Veritas-bu] Behvoural question
> >
> >           I imagine our setup here is 
somewhat 'typical' for a large
> > environemnt.
> >           100Meg systems feeding 1Gig networks to a 
L700 tape silo.
> >
> >           A few times a week, I have NetBackup fail 
a backup with an
> > error 4x code
> >           (some kind of transient network error). 
These always seem to
> > be on NT
> >           machines (proportionally, there are more 
NT than Unix, so it
> > might not be
> >           directly related).
> >
> >           Looking at the network itself, I cannot 
find any switches
> > reporting errors
> >           between the client and the server. 
Netbackup On sebsequent
> > attempts,
> >           NetBackup is successfull in completing 
the backup.
> >
> >           Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
> >
> >           Jason
> >           
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