There is a file called detail.log located under the vault directory.

I might be a little off on the path, but I think it is
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/vault/<VaultName>/<session ID number>/detail.log

You can look in this file and see what vault is doing during the period
of time where activity monitor shows no activity. There is something
going on, NetBackup is searching through all of your volumes and pools
to find tapes that need to be vaulted.

Don't always trust the activity monitor to show you what it going on. It
might look like nothing is happening, but most times something is.


Thanks,

Kris 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Charles
Ballowe
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:53 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault takes a long time -- mostly idle or
something

My vault processes recently started taking too long (media not kicked
out before driver from the offsite storage company shows up) and I'm
looking at the job log for one, it looks like it spends alot of time
doing nothing.
8:08:44 - connected
8:10:03 - begin Choosing Images
8:10:05 - end Choosing images
8:35:18 - begin Catalog Backup
8:56:19 - end Catalog Backup
9:19:26 - begin Eject and Report
....

What happens in that gap between 8:10 and 8:35 or the gap between 8:56
and 9:19? Is there something I can do to reduce that?

-Charlie
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