What is your bpend_timeout value set to?

-ravi

On Thu, 3 May 2001 KevinB AT paccessglobal DOT com wrote:

>We experienced the same issue.  The issue is the lack of communication
>between the various stages in the process.  When the backup completes
>(successful or failed) it calls bpend.  Once bpend is called there is no
>more communication with NB.  So the problem arises on failures because the
>scheduler can retry before the bpend is complete.  This causes bpend and
>bpstart to trip over each other.  I had wanted to add checking in
>bpend/bpstart that would be aware of retries and failures so that they could
>avoid issues.  However, I could not get any feedback on the failure
>conditions that won't retry.  So, the dba added a test to bpstart to see if
>bpend was running.  This solved the compounding problems of bpstart/bpend
>running simultaneously but there are times when the database shuts down and
>starts up 3 times in a night for failed backup attempts.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TWGIBBAR AT up DOT com [mailto:TWGIBBAR AT up DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:14 PM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpend_notify Question
>
>
>We have a situation where were using home grown built oracle scripts for
>hot database backups.  Everything works just great with the bpstart and
>bpend scripts unless the job fails with a media or time-out error.  The
>bpend doesn't run to clean things up before the job retries and reruns the
>bpstart script.  This causes errors to pop up in the alert log because the
>tables are already marked for backup and also causes issues when it
>completes because everything isn't always properly cleaned up.  I guess my
>question is, how do I ensure the bpend script runs if the jobs fails after
>the bpstart has already ran?  I hope this mumble jumble makes sense to
>someone.
>
>Thanks,
>Terry
>
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