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Re: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups may not be running
2008-11-05 11:51:26
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Tageson, Jim <james.tageson AT baycare DOT org> wrote:
We uncovered a situation recently where some client backups
in scheduled policies were not running at all. These clients were in
active policies with several other clients which were running just fine. We
discovered a total of 4 clients in 2 policies which were just not running their
backups at all. Other clients in these 2 policies were being scheduled as
expected. We went for 19 days without backups running on these 4
clients. Since they never were scheduled, there were obviously no errors in
Netbackup at all and we didn't know we had a problem until someone
requested a restore and we saw no backups had run. This is not a new problem and one that pops up regularly. It's absolutely, positively the most severe issue that NetBackup can have since data is silently ignored with no warning to the backup admins. We've seen it over the years with 6.0MP2 being the worst example.
We regularly watch not only for failures but also have cronjobs out there that check to see if any backups have run for specific clients. For example, if no database archive logs get backed up, and email is sent out to the DBAs and backup admins. We occasionally view the Aptare StorageConsole volume graphs to see if the patterns make sense - this was our original trigger into the 6.0 issues.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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