Had a LOT of problems with nbpem in 6.0 MP2 (hangs, crashes, missing
backups). Lots of them were fixed by MP3.
Still have issues with nbpem with MP3:
- missing backups, nbpem will not start backups for some clients in
policies, no related log entries
- missing backups, "protocol error" generated in netbackup/db/error
directory, no jobs started in activity window.

Don't want to waste my time with Veritas support (takes days!), hope
someone else will report same issues and Veritas will fix them.

Dmitri

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Bhangui,
Sandeep - BLS CTR
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:17 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Scheduler woes with Ver 6.0 + MP3

Hi
        Wondering whether anyone on this forum has seen this behavior.

Environment:  Solaris 8 shop.

Master and Media on the same server running Netbackup Ver 6.0 + MP3.
This is a fresh 6.0 install.

Adic scalar 24 attached to the Master server.

Backups run fine for few days and than the scheduler just stops working.
The scheduler can be made to work only by stopping and starting
Netbackup.

Some features seen in the process are.

1. Typically the scheduler stops working when the backup on one of the
clients has failed with a status code. From the status code one can
figure out why the client failed. But I cannot find the reason as to why
the scheduler just stops working when such a incident occurs.

I think in the normal scheme of things if a backup on a client fails
than the software should just put the Status error code and move on to
the other scheduled policies and perform the backups for those policies.
But that is not happening. Once the backup of a client has failed no
other policies scheduled after that runs.

2. Once the above mentioned situation happens. If I try to run
"/etc/init.d/netbackup" or bp.kill_all to stop Netbackup. It cannot stop
the Policy Execution Manager, it just hangs while trying to stop that.

No choice but to CTRL C out and than use kill -9 to kill all nbpem
processes. Once those are killed and I run /etc/init.d/netbackup stop or
bp.kill_all it stops all the remaining processes and comes back to the
prompt.

Somehow my nbpem process is getting hosed/or hung . I am working with
Support on this and provided them the requested logs. Not heard back
from them and hence wondering if anyone has seen anything like this, as
I know Ver 6.0 has lot of issues with Scheduler but was told by support
that all necessary patches for scheduler are included in MP3.

Any suggestions.

Thanks
Sandeep


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