NetBackup support got back to me with an answer on the error messages:  They
are normal.  The hanging jobs are due to unavailable resources; not sure yet
what is unavailable.



On 5/1/07, Gregory Taylor wrote:
>
> I ran into the same issue and never checked the obvious at a customer
> site.  Not the answer I expected.  The Policy was set for the wrong OS
> type and the Allow Multiple Data Streams was used.
>
> Turning off Allow Multiple Data Streams allowed the jobs then to run.
> The only way I could get it to run with multiple streams was to kill the
> first job in the process and then all the other jobs would kick off.
>
> Ended up just a simple change of the correct OS in the Policy for the
> server being backed up worked?
>
>
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> ________________________________
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> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of "i node"
> <clri.c0t0d0 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:39 PM
> To: "Whelan, Patrick" <Patrick.Whelan at colt.net>
> Cc: veritas-bu <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] unable to get a storage unit for client
>
>
>
> NB 5.1 Running on Solaris.
>
> On 5/1/07, Whelan, Patrick <Patrick.Whelan at colt.net> wrote:
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>
>
> What version
>
>
> Patrick Whelan
>
>
> NetBackup Specialist
>
> Architect & Engineering
>
> +44 20 7863 5243
>
>
>
> Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! - Unknown
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>
> There are only 10 kinds of people on earth - those who understand binary
> and those who don't.
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>
> Als sie mich holten,
> gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte
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> -- Martin Niem?ller
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> ________________________________
>
> From: i node
> Sent: Tue 01/05/2007 6:34 PM
> To: veritas-bu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] unable to get a storage unit for client
>
>
>
> I have a case open with NetBackup support that that they've not been
> able to help me with.  Thought I'd give you good people a shot at it:
>
> 1.) We are getting these messages repeating in bpsched log: "unable to
> get a storage unit for client".  Most of the time the messages
> eventually stop and the backup job runs.
>
>
>
> 2.) We sometimes need to recycle NetBackup when jobs begin to queue and
> never become active.
>
>
>
> 3.) We have jobs that hang. They remain active, but last activity shown
> by bperror is many hours old, and number of files or kilobytes backed up
> does not progress.
>
>
>
> Not sure if 2 & 3 are related to 1 or not.  Any ideas?
>
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