This is not really an anwser to your problem but when we had someone from 
Veritas looking at our system they suggested we use bpbackupdb with the -seq 
1 option like so:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpbackupdb -seq 1

It has been a while so I can not remember what the flag does exactly and he 
said it was undocumented perhaps someone on the list knows.

Perry

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Snodgrass, John [mailto:John.Snodgrass AT icn.siemens DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:19 AM
> > To: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problems after implementing bpbackupdb script
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Thanks to help from several list members, I wrote my script
> > to backup the NetBackup databases and added it to cron to run
> > at a time I know that should be idle.  On a couple occasions,
> > I've had a problem in that NONE of the regular backups that
> > were scheduled ran.  At first I thought this was attributed
> > to another problem we had at the time, but it happened again
> > last night, and I know the other problem was not an issue.
> >
> > The only thing I could come up with was that the backup
> > request daemon was not running properly, or al all.  I was
> > not seeing any errors in the catalog_backups.log file, so I'm
> > not sure what the problem is.  I looked at the log files for
> > bpsched and bprd and could not see anything that might
> > indicate a problem.  What I have done for now is to comment
> > out the stop/start of the request daemon.  I've included a
> > copy of my script for inspection, just to make sure it was
> > not something I've done inadvertently.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # John Snodgrass
> > # Back up NetBackup databases
> > # 09/18/2002
> >
> > LOGFILE=/usr/openv/netbackup/site_scripts/catalog_backups.log
> > FAILSAFEHOUR=16
> >
> > #
> > #  Check to see if any backups are running
> > #  If there are backups running and we are still within the
> > time window, wait 60 seconds and try again # while [ 1 ] do
> >     BUPROCS=`ps -ef | grep bpsched | grep -v grep | wc -l`
> >     test $BUPROCS -eq 0 && break
> >     HOUR=`date +%H`
> >     test $HOUR -ge $FAILSAFEHOUR && break
> >     echo "" >> $LOGFILE
> >     echo "Backups Running wait to start the database backup"
> > >> $LOGFILE
> >     echo "" >> $LOGFILE
> >     sleep 60
> > done
> >
> > echo "Backing up Netbackup Databases on `/usr/bin/date`" > $LOGFILE
> >
> > #
> > #  Stop the backup request daemon
> > #
> > #echo ""  >> $LOGFILE
> > #echo "Stop the NetBackup Request daemon to prevent backups
> > from starting `/usr/bin/date`" >> $LOGFILE
> > #/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
> >
> > #
> > #  Backup Netbackup Catalogs
> > #
> > echo "" >> $LOGFILE
> > echo "Start the backup of the NetBackup databases
> > `/usr/bin/date`" >> $LOGFILE
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpbackupdb >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
> >
> > #
> > # Restart the backup request daemon
> > #
> > #echo "" >>$LOGFILE
> > #echo "Restart the NetBackup request daemon `/usr/bin/date`"
> > >> $LOGFILE #/opt/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
> >
> > echo "" >>$LOGFILE
> > echo "--------------------------------------" >>  $LOGFILE
> > echo "NetBackup database backup complete `/usr/bun/date`" >> $LOGFILE
> >
> > /usr/bin/cat $LOGFILE | mailx -s "`/usr/bin/uname -n`
> > netbackup databases backup" john.snodgrass AT icn.siemens DOT com
> >
> > exit 0
> >
> > ======================
> > John Snodgrass
> > Siemens ICN
> > Lake Mary, FL
> > 407-942-5583
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