Exactly, which is taken right from the Functional 
Overview.

Thanks Scott-
David

Quoting Scott Jacobson <SJACOBSO AT novell DOT com>:

> The Vertias Advanced NetBackup 3.2/3.4 
troubleshooting course, module 1 > describes/diagrams 
(Advanced NetBackup 3.2 NT Slide 1-3) the NetBackup > 
Runtime Structure and what each of the modules are 
doing.
>
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> >>> "David A. Chapa" <david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com> 
04/19/01 09:36AM >>>
> Troubleshooting Guide, Appendix A. Functional 
Overview.
>
> Does a pretty good job of outlining what Netbackup is 
> doing.
>
> Other than that, well maybe someone will publish 
> something soon ;-)
>
> David
>
> Quoting "Marelas, Peter" 
<MarelP AT australia.stortek DOT com>:
>
> > I tend to compare the logs of a successful backup 
to 
> a failed backup.
> > It also helps to know the steps Netbackup takes to 
> execute a backup.
> > I havent found a good document for this.
> >
> > When fishing through logs, you need to look at more 
> than just one log.
> > Netbackup, spawns multiple processes that 
communicate 
> with each
> > other to perform a backup and each type of process 
> writes to its own log.
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter Marelas
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:    kkadams AT mmm DOT com [SMTP:kkadams AT mmm DOT com]
> > > Sent:    Friday, 20 April 2001 12:23 AM
> > > To:    veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > > Subject:    RE: [Veritas-bu] Behvoural question
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I too experience infrequent 4x errors. Usually 
they 
> happen on the same
> > set
> > > of
> > > clients. I've found that logging above level 1 
> increases the amount of
> > > occurences.
> > >
> > > Having said that I'm a newbie to Netbackup. Being 
a 
> newbie I find
> > > troubleshooting with the logs can be like reading 
> another language. How
> > > did you
> > > experienced Netbackupers become familiar with the 
> logs? Do you just keep
> > > reading
> > > and reading and reading until it becomes English 
or 
> is there some sort of
> > > guideline to follow?
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > |--------+------------------------------>
> > > |        |          "Zufall, Ken"       |
> > > |        |          <[email protected]|
> > > |        |          owell.com>          |
> > > |        |                              |
> > > |        |          04/19/01 08:27 AM   |
> > > |        |                              |
> > > |--------+------------------------------>
> > >
> > >
> > >---------------------------------------------------
--
> --------------------
> > > ---|
> > >   |
> > > |
> > >   |     To:     "'Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]'" 
> <AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca>
> > > |
> > >   |       Veritas BU <veritas-
> bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> > > |
> > >   |     cc:     (bcc: Khris K. Adams/CA-
> Canada/3M/US)
> > > |
> > >   |     Subject:     RE: [Veritas-bu] Behvoural 
> question
> > > |
> > >
> > >
> > >---------------------------------------------------
--
> --------------------
> > > ---|
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've seen this in the past but have never been 
able 
> to track the cause.
> > > The
> > > error I usually receive is a 41.
> > >
> > > Ken Zufall
> > > 330.202.4113
> > >
> > > "It's not the most difficult job in the world, 
but 
> I do have to know all
> > > the
> > > letters." - Vanna White
> > >
> > >
> > >           -----Original Message-----
> > >           From:     Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]
> > > [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
> > >           Sent:     Wednesday, April 18, 2001 
3:57 
> PM
> > >           To:  Veritas BU
> > >           Subject:  [Veritas-bu] Behvoural 
question
> > >
> > >           I imagine our setup here is 
> somewhat 'typical' for a large
> > > environemnt.
> > >           100Meg systems feeding 1Gig networks to 
a 
> L700 tape silo.
> > >
> > >           A few times a week, I have NetBackup 
fail 
> a backup with an
> > > error 4x code
> > >           (some kind of transient network error). 
> These always seem to
> > > be on NT
> > >           machines (proportionally, there are 
more 
> NT than Unix, so it
> > > might not be
> > >           directly related).
> > >
> > >           Looking at the network itself, I cannot 
> find any switches
> > > reporting errors
> > >           between the client and the server. 
> Netbackup On sebsequent
> > > attempts,
> > >           NetBackup is successfull in completing 
> the backup.
> > >
> > >           Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
> > >
> > >           Jason
> > >           
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