Make sure that you are not running many backups at the same time.  If you
have limited number of ports and have logging enabled, the ports required
may be more than ports available and your backups might fail with "Error 25"
- client connection timeouts.
check your bp.conf file and the CLIENT_PORT_WINDOW entry in there if you
have specified.
I had such a problem running my end of the month backups from cron starting
at 12 Midnight on the 1st of every month and I would start several backups
at the same time and they all would fail with Error 25.

Mukarram Syed
UNIX System Administrator
XO Communications
msyed AT xo DOT com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Hazel [SMTP:geoffh AT us.ibm DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:28 PM
> To:   Ballowe, Charles
> Cc:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] What is the BEST WAY to schedule a monthly
> backu p (without 4.5)
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> That works for me.  Thanks very much!!
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> you can do it with bpsched -IB on the first of the month or
> something. just put it in cron and have the schedule defined
> on the server. You don't even need to define the backup windows
> as -IB tells it to ignore backup windows and do an immediate
> backup.
> 
> of course there are probably better ways to handle it, but
> this works for me.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoffrey Hazel [mailto:geoffh AT us.ibm DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:04 PM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] What is the BEST WAY to schedule a
> > monthly backup
> > (without 4.5)
> >
> >
> > I have a requirement to run a month end backup in the first
> > week of the
> > month.  The data isn't there prior to that week, and after
> > that week it
> > disappears.  If I wanted to schedule the job with NetBackup
> > and not simply
> > run a manual job from "cron", what would be the best way to do that?
> >
> > I'm toying with the idea of scheduling it every 730 hours
> > (that's 365 days
> > x 24 hrs/day / 12 months) and just opening up the schedule
> > 24/7 so when it
> > gets to the 730'th hour, off it goes.
> >
> > Anyone else come up with a better way? A more clever plan?
> >
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