Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available

2006-07-06 22:32:22
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP3 available
From: ewilts at ewilts.org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:32:22 -0500
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:55:14PM -0600, Jorgensen, Bill wrote:
> I have been following this thread loosely. Do you have scheduling
> issues after the patch to MP3? 

Most definitely YES.

> We have been rolling out NBU6 and we have had a fair number of issues. 

>  Symantec keeps telling us to patch. First to MP2, but after reading
>  the issues people have noted here I chose not to. We were waiting for
>  MP3.
> 
> Is MP3 a help or an issue?

MP3 is better than MP2.  However, MP3 is *MUCH* worse than 5.1 for us.

I expect we'll be seeing new binaries shortly.  There's no doubt in
anybody's mind that the scheduler is still defective.  Some jobs simply
will not get scheduled.  If you've already upgraded to 6.0, then very
carefully check every mount point of every policy and make sure that all
of the jobs really are running.  We've found many jobs that simply
didn't run with no failures, even with MP3.  Some of the jobs that don't
get scheduled include DSSUs.

We have not yet identified a pattern as to why some jobs get scheduled
and others don't.  If we can find that, I expect we'll get a fix faster.

I've heard rumors that Veritas has a "get well" program for NetBackup 6.
Hopefully they can get it out of the ICU quickly.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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