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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: Schedule backup

2007-09-21 14:19:13
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: Schedule backup
From: d w <comp_geek_gal AT yahoo DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, ddunham AT taos DOT com
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:56:47 -0700 (PDT)
You know - you should probably open a support case next time you encounter this issue. 
If you could cron nbpemreq -tables screen to run once a day to an output file - that might be helpful to narrow down the time frame of the occurance too.
 
 
If you remove pempersist - just make sure that you don't suspend or cancel jobs and then attempt to restart them as that tends to be a sure fire way to break parent and child associations and my cause other missed/skipped backups.
 
 
 
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:14:47 +0000
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reg: Schedule backup
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:01:51AM -0700, d w wrote:
> Please do not remove the pempersist file without direction from
Technical support.  The technote is in the process of being pulled from the
website.
>   
>   If you remove pempersist when jobs are canceled/suspended prior to
recycling NetBackup, it is possible to break the parent and child job
associations and cause missed/skipped backups.

First I've heard of that.  But then again, I'm only doing it when I
miss
backups anyway.  :-)

>   If you are skipping backups I would take a look at whether or not
>   you are using frequency based backups vs. calendar.  With frequency
>   based backups, if your frequency is set to one week, you must BOTH
>   have an open window and a minimum of a week must have elapsed since
>   the last backup.  If this is the case - change the frequency to
once
>   every 5 days and see if that helps.

Don't know about the OP, but on my problem policies, I'm calendar only.
Sometimes one or two of the 'full' backups just don't get scheduled.

>   Is this 5.x or 6.0?

For me, 6.0, 6.0MP3, and 6.0MP4.  MP4 is better, but they never
disappeared.

>   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -tables screen >
/tmp/tables.out
>   
> Take a look at the tables.out file generated and locate the policy in
> question.  When is this full backup due to run?

It's been a while since I've done this.  My fuzzy memory says the last
time I looked at this during a problem, the actual schedule times were
correct, but the 'dont_sched' flag was set to 1.  After clearing
pempersist and restarting, 'dont_sched' went to 0. 

I have a number of fulls scheduled for the end of the month.  If I have
one that doesn't start, I'll pull the tables output for it.

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Darren Dunham                                         
ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS         
  http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay
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