I see my mistake now. The administrator's guide states "If backupdb fails
because other backups are in progress, retry when no other NetBackup
activity is occurring." I took this to mean 'backups' in general, but on
rereading I see it probably means 'other bpbackupdb commands'
Well, I can keep checking for activity and wait for a quiet time.
Unfortunatly shutting down netbackup to do a DB dump will set off alarms in
our monitoring system as it'll think NetBackup has malfunctioned.. Hmm...
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com]
> Sent: January 18, 2002 09:41
> To: Jason Ahrens; Veritas BU
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb not behaving as documented?
>
>
> Does it say that in the documentation? If it doesn't
> clearly state it, it
> should say only when automatically submitted by NBU after
> each session or
> each backup job.
>
> Unless it is run automatically by NBU, it will not wait for
> all backup jobs
> to complete and temporarily disable bprd until it completes.
>
> There's been quite a bit of discussion on ways of doing these backups
> outside of NBU.
>
> David
>
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> David A. Chapa
> NetBackup Consultant
> DataStaff, Inc.
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> 847 413 1144
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jason
> Ahrens
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:56 AM
> To: Veritas BU
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb not behaving as documented?
>
>
> According to the documentation of bpbackupdb, it will fail
> with a non-zero
> return if you try to run it while other backups are in progress.
>
> Currently, I am doing a manual backup of a client for a test.
> I decided to
> test bpbackupdb to ensure things were working as I expected.
> What I found
> though is that bpbackupdb doesn't fail if a backup is in
> progress, instead
> it seems to happpilly go along and start doing a DB backup of
> an active
> database...
>
> Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Jason
>
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> TELUS Enterprise Solutions
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