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[Veritas-bu] X is not primary server Y.....why?

2005-08-08 15:37:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] X is not primary server Y.....why?
From: thoke AT northpeak DOT org (Tim Hoke)
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:37:10 -0500
This is totally normal.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/245508.htm

There aren't any NetBackup daemons that run on a media server.

HTH
-Tim

On Aug 8, 2005, at 1:25 PM, <marshall.a.skare AT accenture DOT com> wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running a NBU 4.5FP 3GA setup on Solaris servers, and am running 
> into an odd problem.  Our media server had a CPU panic over the 
> weekend and fell on its head three different times.
>
> The server itself is back up and running now, and it didn't appear to 
> lose any disks or files.  What happens when we try to start NBU though 
> is that the media daemons will start, but the NBU daemons will not.  
> Looking through the bprd and bpdbm logs show that the server is 
> complaining that it "is not the primary server <MASTER_SERVER>."
>
> Well, that's correct.  It's our MEDIA server, not the master.  bp.conf 
> has not changed.  Both the master and media server are listed in the 
> media server's bp.conf file, and this should be a non-issue anyway 
> since the file hasn't been changed in the crash.  For grins, I also 
> checked /etc/hosts, and that hasn't changed either.
>
> Is there a lock file that maybe didn't get cleaned up when the machine 
> went down?  Should I be looking at a different log file?  I'm stumped 
> on this one.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> - Marshall Skare
>
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