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[Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)

2006-06-30 08:46:21
Subject: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)
From: shazari at gmail.com (Shyam Hazari)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:46:21 -0400
Yes, You can using bperror and parse the output.

bperror -problems -hoursago <HOURS> -client <client name>

-Shyam

On 6/30/06, Schindelasch, Frerk <Frerk.Schindelasch at ewe.de> wrote:
>
> Is it possible, to get a list of the files not backed up in a job exiting
> with RC 1 from the command line?
>
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] Im Auftrag von WEAVER, Simon
> Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Juni 2006 13:53
> An: 'Jeff Lightner'; bob944 at attglobal.net;
> veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Betreff: Re: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)
>
>
> Jeff
> Agree, as mentioned below in a Status 1 backup
> 1) exclude the file/files that are causing the status code
> 2) Investigate issue and if not relevant, revert to point 1.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
> 3rd Line Technical Support
> Windows Domain Administrator
>
> EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
> Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
>
> Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com]
> Sent: 30 June 2006 12:49
> To: WEAVER, Simon; bob944 at attglobal.net; veritas-bu at 
> mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)
>
>
> Status 1 is not a failure UNLESS it's a database backup.  For filesystems
> everywhere I've been we've shown that a status 1 is not a failure but a
> warning.  Unfortunately you won't get Veritas to officially confirm that.
>
> Some things I've seen cause a status 1:
> Open files.
> Files changed between the time the list for backup and the actual write to
> tape occurred. Sun "Door" files.
>
> We verified extensively at a job that required FDA Validation that
> restores
> from such backups were indeed complete to the point in time the backup was
> started.  At that job we simply had to document that a status 1 was a
> success for all but database backups.
>
> Note that due to the status 1 scheduling tools Tivoli Work Scheduler
> (Maestro) that show abends for non zero exit status need to be massaged.
> You
> basically have to have the Maestro job script check for status 1 and mark
> exit the script with status 0 to prevent this.  "exit 0" is all you have
> to
> do in a script to make this work.  It took me a while to get our
> schedulers
> to understand this concept but once they did and I gave them the syntax
> they
> were able to avoid reported abends for this.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
> Simon
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:16 AM
> To: 'bob944 at attglobal.net'; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)
>
>
> Bob
> As the image is stored in the DB, I still see Status 1 as a good backup.
>
> As long as you can get the data that needs to be backed up, and you
> identify
> the reason for the "1" you have 2 options in my view:
>
> 1) exclude the file/files that are causing the status code
> 2) Investigate and if not relevant, revert to point 1.
>
> Anything higher is what I class a failure.
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
> 3rd Line Technical Support
> Windows Domain Administrator
>
> EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
> Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
>
> Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net]
> Sent: 30 June 2006 08:13
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; WEAVER, Simon
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] status 1 (was: Typical success rates?)
>
>
> > Exclude the "1"'s as I dont class them as failures :-)
>
> Which might be why NetBackup defines stat 1 as "partial success" _and
> keeps
> the image_.  Final status <= 1 yields a restorable image; status > 1 does
> not (archives excluded).  I think we agree that stat 1 beats the heck out
> of
> stat > 1.
>
> That said, Operations can not accept a stat 1 without investigation. What
> is
> a status 1--is it one of the 15-odd conditions in the Status 1 section of
> the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide?  Is it "just another goofy Windows
> busy
> perfdat file?"  The definition Ops must apply is "of all the files which
> were to be backed up, some were and some were not."
>
>
> Example A:
> Files to be backed up (seletion minus excludes plus includes:  1,000,000
> Files backed up:  999,999 Files not backed up:  1
> Status:  1
>
> Example B:
> Files to be backed up (seletion minus excludes plus includes:  1,000,000
> Files backed up:  1 Files not backed up:  999,999
> Status:  1
>
> Hence the BBP requirement that intelligence, artificial or human, be
> applied
> to stat 1s every time.
>
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