Juan-

I believe this is a limitation with VCB. Only one snapshot from a given
datastore can occur at a time. NetBackup will still attempt to run both
of them (hence they would be running in Activity Monitor), but
vcbmounter has to wait until the other job releases the snapshot before
the second job can start the snapshot. I think the only way around it is
to schedule multiple jobs from multiple datastores at the same time, and
then the jobs on the same datastore have to run sequentially.

Check out this technote:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/296234

Also check out Symantec's config guide for VCB:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/293350

Regards,

Brian

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Brian Blake
Storage Architect
Datalink Corporation
Office (813) 209-3262

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.1 using VCB and Mapped FullVM
        (Option 2)
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I have created a policy to perform Full backups of VMs using Option 2.
This enables me to either restore the full VM or single files.  My
problem is that when the policy kicks off, even though it kicks two jobs
at a time (we control access to the library), it appears the vcbmounter
is only running one job at a time.  This is not the case for my
incremental backups that I run using Option 0 (allows restore of single
files).  Does anyone know why the NetBackup Admin console shows two jobs
running, but when you look at the VCB only one the VMs is being backed
up at a time?  This is slowing down my backups since each jobs has to
wait for the first one to complete.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Juan

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