The new duplication I ran with “-rl 9” worked fine.
I suspect there may be an issue with the tape drive itself. Although there were no errors in the first duplication it took nearly 13
hours to run whereas the successful one yesterday took only 4 hours. Also the drive is one I’ve now seen Status 84 Media Write errors on for two different tapes this week on other backup jobs including one this morning. Both of those successfully mounted
the tape to a different drive and began writing successfully. The robot is not complaining about the drive but the foregoing is leading me to believe it is in fact having issues so I’ll investigate that with the vendor.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 5:06 PM
To: Lightner, Jeff;
VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Duplication missing?
Hello,
Check the bpdbm log and the bperror for the backupid.
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On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:27 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Duplication missing?
Yesterday I ran a manual bpduplicate command to duplicate an image from one of our dedupe units to tape.
This morning the job shows as completed successfully but bpimaglist for the backup ID shows only Frag 1 (which is copy 1 on the Dedupe unit). For duplication
done by vaulting this command would typically show Frag 2 (copy 2) on tape as well but doesn’t for this one.
There are no errors in the job in Activity Monitor and in fact it exited with status 0. It shows it successfully mounted a tape for the duplication. bperror
–jobid on that job ID also shows it successfully made a copy 2.
The only thing I can think is that I used “-rl infinity” to specify retention level and perhaps it wants numeric level rather than text (e.g. RL 9 = infinity).
As a test I kicked off another duplication today using “-rl bogustext” and it started without complaint so it appears it takes invalid runlevel text. Is it possible this forced it to set –rl to 0 and immediately expired the duplicate? If so what log would
show me the duplicate being expired?
I’ve kicked off a new duplication running –rl 9 but this will take several hours to run. Does anyone have any clue why I wouldn’t see the copy in bpimagelist
if it isn’t the run level that’s the problem?
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