I am getting error "backup of client XXX exited with status 196 (client backup was not attempted because backup window closed)". We are using NetBackup
6.0. This error has come for the first time for all backup clients and none of the clients were backed-up. Request forum members to provide their valuable solution.
What could be the reason for the above error? I am a beginner as far as NatBackup is concerned and any inputs are welcome. I read it somewhere that manual backup can be performed under these circumstances, but even that is failing with same error.
There are many reasons for this. If you don't have enough tape drives, jobs will back up behind them, and eventually your backup window will close before the jobs get to run. You could have too few jobs per client or per storage unit. You could have multiplexing off.
The activity monitor in 6.0 will show the jobs with the status 196. Look at the jobs and the parents of those jobs and it will tell you what it's waiting for.
You didn't say what maintenance pak you were running - you should be at least at MP4 and preferably MP5.
You also said that NONE of you jobs ran. In this case, since nothing is running anyway, it won't hurt to reboot your master server. Once NetBackup is back up, manually submit one job to see if it starts to run.
.../Ed
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