Ok, understand.  We had an issue using calaender based scheduling not 
submitting jobs, and the Veritas Tech support gave this response which so far 
has worked.


Hey, I'm happy to hear the performance is better.  Calendar based
scheduling.... I do know the answer to this question.  Ok, the answer is....
it runs on a 24 hour clock from midnight to midnight.  Therefore if you look
closely, you will see the backup for today already ran in the wee AM hours,
and therefore will not launch at 18:00 hours. 

Example:
M-th Incramentals run from 10pm-2:00am each day.

Monday - 10:00pm - window opens - backups start and complete
--2 hours later (midnight)it becomes Tuesday.... backup runs and completes
for Tuesday...

Tuesday - 10:00pm - window opens - nothing happens... (backups already ran
for Tuesday just after midnight...)

Tuesday night Midnight - (Officially Wednesday now) backups start and
fulfill Wednesday's backup requirement...

Etc..Etc...

I have spoken with Development about this many times.  They say this
behavior is intended.  Beats me as to why....  



-----Original Message-----
From: Cris Rhea [mailto:crhea AT mayo DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:00 AM
To: Hart, Charles
Cc: Rhea, Cristopher J.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on NBU scheduler....


> From recent exp on installing DC 4.5FP3 in a Solaris environment, 
> go straight to fp5.  Have had many performance and misc bugs, work 
> arounds the Veritas Tech support told me twice now that FP3 is really 
> a GA release, because of the many many new features.  Two of the 
> biggest issues we had was the VSP (OTM's replacement, don't use it and 
> vault basically does not work.)   
> 
> The only way we could keep the drives spinning is Mpx and manually 
> breaking out streams by file system.


Yes, I applied the current patches, so I guess I'm at FP5.
(I still don't get the MP/FP thing...)

W.r.t. MPX and breaking out file systems....  I'm not talking about 
keeping the drives STREAMING, I'm talking about having ANY job scheduled
on the drive AT ALL... (you first have to have a tape IN the drive
before you worry about performance/data transfer issues...)   ;)


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