Jason,

Thanks for your explanation.  Just out of curiosity, how often were you getting 
the 2's ?  We've only had them twice since upgrading to 6.5.1 (about a month 
ago) so it wasn't like we had constant problems.  However, with the catalog 
being such a critical component of the NBU environment, we couldn't go on 
hoping that they wouldn't fail again.

Thanks again... gotta love how folks like you can pinpoint a problem quicker 
than Veritas themselves !!

Mark Glazerman
Desk: 314-889-8282
Cell: 618-520-3401
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-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:35 PM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backup exiting with Status code 2 - unable to 
verify nbdb database

Remove them.
They were the cause of my error 2s. I already reported it to Symantec.

I may be corrected here because it is a little confusing to me as well, 
but.. From what I understand if you are recovering from a LARGE catalog 
the clients in the critical policy list will be able to perform restores 
before the full recovery of the catalog is complete (I believe)..

I have performed a FULL backup and recovery w/out critical policies (in 
5.x they did not exist) and also two production environments with 6.0MP6 
with no issues, they are not needed for catalog recovery.

Disable your current policy, copy it and delete the critical policies and 
retry it for kicks? :)

Justin.


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Mark Glazerman wrote:

> Justin,
>
> We have 7 policies listed in the critical policies list.  They are the 
> policies that back up out tier one data.  I have to admit that I'm not really 
> sure why we specify them but could you tell me why having them / removing 
> them would make any difference ?
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> Mark Glazerman
> Desk: 314-889-8282
> Cell: 618-520-3401
> ? please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:29 PM
> To: Mark Glazerman
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backup exiting with Status code 2 - unable 
> to verify nbdb database
>
> Only an idea-- do you use critical policies in your Catalog backup policy?
> If so, delete them and try again.
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Mark Glazerman wrote:
>
>> I've had a ticket open with Symantec for over a week now regarding our
>> catalog backups randomly failing with a status code 2.  We are running
>> NBU 6.5.1 on Solaris 10 x86.
>>
>

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