On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Using NetBackup 6.0MP5 and use the least storage unit option (we have several
> in a group), look what happens:
>
> What do I mean?
>
> Go here:
>
> 1. Open jnbSA/Windows GUI:
> 2. Select NetBackup Management:
> 3. Select Storage Units:
> 4. Expand Storage Unit Groups:
> 5. Select the group:
> 6. Right click and select Change:
> 7. There are three options:
>    a) Choose storage units based on the order specified above.
>    b) Choose least recently selected storage unit in the list.
>    c) Failover. (Use the first storage unit in the list. Use subsequent 
> storage
>       units for failover only.)
>
> This was the only thing that changed and now we are getting ERROR 800s (2 or
> 3 clients).
>
> We changed from a -> b.
>
> And now I see this in the logs:
>
> 01/26/2008 08:00:39 - requesting resource mygroup
> 01/26/2008 08:00:39 - requesting resource 
> backups-mygroup.sub.domain.com.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.client-fqdn.sub.com
> 01/26/2008 08:00:39 - requesting resource 
> backups-mygroup.sub.domain.com.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.SERVER-POLICY
> 01/26/2008 08:00:46 - Error nbjm (pid=8196) NBU status: 800, EMM status: 
> Maximum job count has been reached for the storage unit
> resource request failed (800)
>
> It appears it is hitting the upper limit of an nbemm/server setting that is
> causing the job to fail, I'd rather have it use the same storage unit (again)
> and not be perfectly spread out across all storage units rather than having it
> fail.
>
> We need to find out how to avoid this if possible without changing
> "Choose least recently selected storage unit in the list" -- I would assume
> it is an NBEMM setting but I am curious if anyone else has experienced
> this problem?
>
> Justin.
>
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Has nobody seen this type of error before? :X

Justin.
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