Hi,

I have just done a new install of Netbackup 6 with MP4 on
a Solaris 10 machine.  My windows and Solaris backups are
all working great but I am stumped on trying to get NDMP
working.  We have been using NDMP for years on 5.1 and before
that with 4.5 without any problem.

The license is in place, the NDMP hosts are defined and (as
far as I can tell) authenticate correctly.  The backup job
starts but after mounting a tape fails with a status code 25.
The job details are shown below.

04/04/2007 15:53:34 - requesting resource guinness-8mm-robot-tl8-0
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - requesting resource  
guinness.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.thoth.backup2.sfu.ca
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - requesting resource  
guinness.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.NDMP-Thoth
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - granted resource  
guinness.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.thoth.backup2.sfu.ca
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - granted resource  
guinness.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.NDMP-Thoth
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - granted resource ADM234
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - granted resource SDX-1100-1
04/04/2007 15:53:34 - granted resource guinness-8mm-robot-tl8-0
04/04/2007 15:53:35 - started process bpbrm (pid=8998)
04/04/2007 15:53:35 - connecting
04/04/2007 15:53:35 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
04/04/2007 15:53:38 - mounting ADM234
04/04/2007 15:54:21 - mounted ADM234; mount time: 0:00:43
04/04/2007 15:54:21 - positioning ADM234 to file 1
04/04/2007 15:54:37 - Critical bpbrm (pid=8998) unexpected  
termination of client thoth.backup2.sfu.ca
04/04/2007 12:54:24 - Error bptm (pid=4072) Timeout waiting for  
connected message from NDMP server
04/04/2007 12:54:22 - positioned ADM235; position time: 0:02:32
04/04/2007 12:54:22 - begin writing
04/04/2007 12:54:24 - end writing; write time: 0:00:02
cannot connect on socket (25)

I cranked logging up to 5, and the status code changed from 25 to 50  
but not
much else changed.  Logs I checked did not seem to shed any further  
light.
The coupe lines below were all that changed on the job detail status  
window.


04/04/2007 15:56:51 - Error bptm (pid=9004) media manager terminated  
by parent process
04/04/2007 15:56:52 - end writing
client process aborted (50)

Any one have some bright ideas what else to check/try/look at?

Thanks.

Randy


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