Re: [Veritas-bu] BPDM Process on Netbackup 6.5

Actually, from what I see in our bpdm logs, the process is just handling duplication processes. We write backups to disk then dup to tape...all the processes in our bpdm log look like:

19:34:45.362 [27686] <2> bpdm: INITIATING (VERBOSE = 0): -copy -cmd -nosig -everything -cn 1 -c [client] -b [client]_1239870655 -port -1 -1 [media_server] -L /usr/openv/netbackup/vault/sessions/[Vault_Policy]/sid[N]/duplicate.log.1 -en -ru root -rclnt [master] -jobid 3397136 -priority 0 -shm -blksize 262144 -dst_cn 2 -p [DSU] -mediasvr [media_server]

I have found old documentation from previous admins which indicates that bpdm used to be for all disk activities, but it looks like that as of 6.5.1, the "d" in bpdm stands for "duplication".

Backups to disk are currently logged in bptm:

00:00:31.735 [24511] <2> bptm: INITIATING (VERBOSE = 0): -w -c [client] -dpath [DSU] -stunit [storage_unit] -cl [policy_client] -bt 1239854418 -b [backup_id] -st 0 -cj 1 -reqid -1238152446 -jm -brm -hostname [client] -ru root -rclnt [client] -rclnthostname [client] -rl 5 -rp 8035200 -sl Daily_Full -ct 25 -maxfrag 10240 -mediasvr [media_server] -connect_options 0x01010000 -jobid 3394345 -jobgrpid 3394345 -masterversion 650000 -bpbrm_shm_id 44302385 -blks_per_buffer 2048

Ken Zufall
Technical Analyst
D660C
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
GTN 446.0592 or 330.796.0592

Dean <dean.deano AT gmail DOT com>
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04/17/2009 10:00 AM

To	"Jimenez, Daniel" <Daniel.Jimenez AT imb DOT com>
cc	"veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] BPDM Process on Netbackup 6.5

Not quite.

BPTM handles I/O for TAPE backups and restores.

BPDM does the same for backups to and restores from DISK.

If you want to know more about what it's doing, turn on logging by creating a bpdm directory under the logs directory.

Cheers,
Dean

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Jimenez, Daniel <Daniel.Jimenez AT imb DOT com> wrote:
Hey guys

I have been researching the BPDM process and trying to find out exactly what it does. I have been told that if BPDM is running on a specific media server that this is the server being used to write the data to the tape drive and wanted to know if this is true. Any information would be appreciated, thanks.

Daniel Jimenez

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