Author: WALLEBROEK Bart <Bart.WALLEBROEK AT swift DOT com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:17:36 +0200
We are using DSU (basic disk) since a couple of weeks and in this time I saw that we had 4 occasions where I came in in the morning noticing that backup jobs towards this Media Server were all queued
Author: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:12 -0400
You can reactivate the server for disk by going to devices --> Media Servers and selecting the server and hitting "Activate". Check Reports -Jonathan --Original Message-- From: veritas-bu-bounces AT
Author: WALLEBROEK Bart <Bart.WALLEBROEK AT swift DOT com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:32:17 +0200
Martin, Thanx for the (very) quick reply. Any idea what specific NetBackup logs I should look into ? Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Backup admin Enterprise Applications Delivery - Infrastructure Manag
Author: WALLEBROEK Bart <Bart.WALLEBROEK AT swift DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:30:42 +0200
The Media Manager is active when going to devices --> Media>Servers and selecting the server. It is only after a complete stop and start of the NetBackup services (bpdown/bpup) on this Media Server t
Author: Girish Jorapurkar <girishsj AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
In 6.5/6.5.x, a service (nbrmms) running on all master/media servers sends a heartbeat/capacity-update regarding disk storage units on the server. If the master server service (nbemm), for some reaso
Author: WALLEBROEK Bart <Bart.WALLEBROEK AT swift DOT com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:49:54 +0200
Girish, I already changed this parameter. I did not put in a higher value but a lower value (30 seconds) as I believed it was because of the fact that the Media Server did not cleaned up the staging
Author: Girish Jorapurkar <girishsj AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
There you go - setting a lower value to RE_READ_INTERVAL, I belive, is the problem. NetBackup will mark a media server "offline for disk" if does not receive heartbeat in 30 seconds, in your case. An
Author: WALLEBROEK Bart <Bart.WALLEBROEK AT swift DOT com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:16:44 +0200
Extract from the NetBackup help file: The high water mark does not apply to storage units that are used for basic disk staging. For more information about this type of disk staging, see Basic disk st
Author: Girish Jorapurkar <girishsj AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:05:43 -0700 (PDT)
The high watermark serves two purposes - (1) It prevents any new backup jobs from being sent to the STU, and (2) It triggers image expirations on the STU. The function #1 is not applicable to Disk St