It's a long time since I've used savepnpc but I remember trying it several
years ago and hitting a snag where it seemed that if you specifically 'named'
the partitions to backup, then it ran it for each one of those (whereas if you
simply said 'All' it worked OK).
Sorry - the memory on this is hazy, but does that tie in with what you're
seeing?
Allan Nelson
CCS Lancaster
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
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Sent: 09 November 2009 21:28
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] savepnpc weirdness (7.5.1) - multiple runs per backup
Anyone seen a behavior from savepnpc where it runs multiple times for a
given backup? Note I'm talking about savepnpc, not savepc, which is
designed (AFAIK) to run once per saveset.
We have a couple of (Solaris) database clients that use savepnpc scripts
to (call other scripts and) shutdown/restart their DBs before and after
backups, both on 7.2 and 7.5.1. Works great on 7.2, been doing it for
several years. On 7.5.1, we've seen where apparently Networker runs the
shutdown and restart scripts numerous times in quick succession before
finally seeing there's something backing up and thus waiting to run the
final restart when the backup completes. Of course, these backups are no
good since the DBs were bouncing like a ball during them.
Here are a few key events, for example, from a group that ran at 2 am...
>From the /nsr/logs/savepnpc.log on the client:
11/09/09 02:00:00 preclntsave: Starting up the precmds.
11/09/09 02:00:43 preclntsave: All command(s) ran successfully.
11/09/09 02:01:44 pstclntsave: Client is not active in the worklist.
11/09/09 02:01:44 pstclntsave: All savesets on the worklist are done.
11/09/09 02:01:44 pstclntsave: Starting up the pstcmds.
11/09/09 02:02:28 pstclntsave: All command(s) ran successfully.
11/09/09 02:02:28 pstclntsave: Exited.
The above repeats six more times, bouncing the DB each time, until
finally...
11/09/09 02:39:37 preclntsave: Starting up the precmds.
11/09/09 02:40:42 preclntsave: All command(s) ran successfully.
11/09/09 02:41:42 pstclntsave: Client is still active in the worklist.
11/09/09 02:41:42 pstclntsave: Worklist not complete. Some saves are still
running.
11/09/09 02:42:42 pstclntsave: Client is still active in the worklist.
The above repeats seven more times during the backup, presumably a normal
polling process from Networker, until...
11/09/09 02:49:42 pstclntsave: Savegroup is not running.
11/09/09 02:49:42 pstclntsave: All savesets on the worklist are done.
11/09/09 02:49:42 pstclntsave: Starting up the pstcmds.
11/09/09 02:50:26 pstclntsave: All command(s) ran successfully.
11/09/09 02:50:26 pstclntsave: Exited.
And, from /nsr/logs/daemon.log on the server:
11/09/09 02:00:50 nsrd client1:/dir1 saving to pool 'diskpool'
(diskvol.001)
11/09/09 02:04:49 nsrd 913 MB are saved to pool 'diskpool' (diskvol.001)
of client1:/dir1
11/09/09 02:04:49 savegrp job (1792176) host: client1 savepoint: /dir1
had WARNING indication(s) at completion.
11/09/09 02:05:37 nsrd client1:/dir2 saving to pool 'diskpool'
(diskvol.001)
11/09/09 02:11:45 nsrd 1670 MB are saved to pool 'diskpool' (diskvol.001)
of client1:/dir2
...etc. until the group completes.
We originally wondered if savepnpc was running the pstcmd too quickly,
before Networker had built the worklist, thinking it was already done. But
the daemon.log shows that the client was actually backing up within a
minute of the group starting, so... Maybe the worklist is built concurrent
with whatever savepnpc is triggering, but it just (hopefully!) waits until
the precmd is done before actually starting the backup. In the case above,
backups started 7 seconds after the first precmd completed, with the first
pstcmd running about a minute later.
Any ideas??
Thanks.
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