MP5 had a ton of bugs (not really sure how it made it out of the
door), but I would wager that most of those have been resolved in MP6.
That's what we are running now, and we haven't had many issues.
Compared to some of the folks on here, our environment is probably
mid-sized, as we back up about 750 TB a month.
-- nick
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Koping Wang <kwang AT esri DOT com> wrote:
> Does anybody has and bad experience with 6.0 MP6? I heard too may bad
> things of MP5. I am on MP4 and thinking about upgrade to MP6.
> Sun E450, Solaris 9, NBU6.0 MP4
>
> Thanks
> Koping
>
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> From: "Nick Majeran" <nmajeran AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 24, Issue 61
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, Michael.Sponsler AT ngc DOT com
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> We just experienced a rash of these on MP5 -- basically, there were some
> bugs in MP5 which caused intermittent image corruption. bpdbm will hang
> during cleanup or database backups, and database backups failed with
> status 41. Fun times, let me assure you!
>
> We ran through about 5 corrupted images in a week (on images that were
> expired), and then upgraded to MP6.
>
> We we had to do was run an lsof, see exactly which files bpdbm is hung
> up on, kill those bpdbm pids, and delete the files in question.
> Everything was clean after that.
>
> hth,
>
> > Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP5 Master server.
> >
> > My bpdbm process is acting wacky (I think...I've never noticed this
> > behavior before). I've actually got 14 bpdbm processes running, but
> > also 38 active jobs currently. The logs for my in
> > netbackup/logs/bpdbm are very large...around 2 gigs per day's log
> > file. I'm seeing such inforation in there as:
> >
> > image_by_file: processing file
> >
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/1157000000/<hostname>-Oracle
> > -B
> > ackup_1157475027_UBAK
> > expdate: no match for
> >
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/<hostname>/12030000000/<hoststname>-Ora
> > cl
> > e-Backup_1203468053_INCR
> >
> > by bp.conf file has:
> > VERBOSE = 1
> > ENABLE_ROBUST_LOGGING = NO
> >
> > But the thing is, I've noticed some information in my bpdbm logs
> > talking about Informix backups that we haven't done in almost 2 years
>
> > since we've moved to Oracle. The backups are long since expired...so
>
> > why is Netbackup processing those files?
> >
> > On my master server, I'm running Solaris 10 on a v440 w/ 16 gigs of
> > RAM,
> > 4 CPU's running @ 1593 Mhz. I do have a large netbackup domain...60
>
> > Media & SAN Media servers, ~30 clients...but my Master server sees
> > constant 100% cpu utilization. The Server slows down, and locks up.
> > Could this be related to bpdbm checking all the files in the catalog,
>
> > and spawning so many bpdbm processes?
> >
> > --
> > Mike Sponsler
> > Michael.Sponsler AT ngc DOT com
>
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