Hi folks, 

VNBU 4.5 error code 233:
Master Server (Media Server) : Solaris 8 VNBU version: 4.5GA Tape library: 
Sun L100 Tape drives: 5 x Seagate LTO1
- The size of data written on the backup that failed with error 233 varies 
among different clients. Some of them backup 10 GB then failed, some of them 
only backup few MB then failed.
- The error 233 is not specific to particular clients nor particular media 
ID nor particular tape drive

bptm, bpdbm,bpbrm logs shown below
cannot add fragment to image database, error 233 = premature eof encountered"

00:14:40.582 [12683] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM
10.84.14.41.36024 TO 10.84.14.41.13721
00:14:41.182 [12683] <2> get_long: (2) premature end of file (byte 1)
00:14:41.183 [12683] <2> db_getdata: get_string() failed: I/O error (5) 
premature end of file encountered (-9)
00:14:41.202 [12683] <2> db_end: no DONE from db_getreply(): premature eof 
encountered
00:14:41.203 [12683] <2> db_IMAGE: db_end() failed: premature eof encountered
00:14:41.206 [12683] <16> write_backup: cannot add fragment to image database, 
error = premature eof encountered
00:14:41.208 [12683] <2> send_brm_msg: EXIT sgcsgsuebiz19_1200327043 233
00:14:41.209 [12683] <2> bct_clear_active: Set BCTable entry 3 to inactive, 
ACTIVE_GC count decremented to 3

1. Changed all the tape drives and put in all new tapes
2. Rebuild device list and confirmed the Master server is the first entry in 
bp.conf
3. Confirmed the class or policy NOT has a comma sign in it name
4. NOT TIR backup
5. Completed #bpdbm -consistency 2 check without and bad images error, The 
check taken about 4 hours
6. Backup policies started, mount tape, positioning and start writing then 
the failed with error code 233 again, the written size to tape is always 
varies, sometime 2MB, sometime 2GB etc...

Would like to highlight the backup images /usr/openv/netbackup/db is 
pointing to NFS mount of /appnas/netbackup/db, currently used up 74GB of 
94GB of space 

Search thru' all Veritas support sites, web to no avail, escalated to Veritas 
Support still pending for response from almost month

Could anyone shed some ideas/thinking etc....I am more than willing to try it 
out to fix the problem


Thanks
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